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  Session: Labs/Apparatus
  Paper Type: Poster
  Title: Introductory Experiments in Sound-Source Localization
  Meeting: 2018 Winter Meeting: San Diego, CA
  Location: N/A
  Date:
  Time: 8:45AM
  Author: Stephen Eric Hill,, University of Redlands,
909 748-8659, eric_hill@redlands.edu
  Co-Author(s): None
  Abstract: Sound Localization connects physics to biological systems and everyday experience, as well as the simulation of everyday experience in video games and musical recordings, while it also synthesizes and reinforces basic waves principles – phase, wave speed, diffraction, reflection, and spectrum. This poster presents a sequence of introductory-level experiments students can perform using the free sound processing program, Audacity, to explore the fundamental wave physics responsible for sound localization cues: Interaural Time Difference (delays in sound's arrival at one ear vs. the other), Interaural Level Difference (variations in sound intensity at one ear vs. the other), and the effect of Anatomical Transfer (differences in a sound's spectrum due to reflection from and diffraction around the head and upper torso).
  Footnotes: None
  Presentation: Sound Localization Poster 2018.pptx

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