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Subject: PUB: Spatial Hearing
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 09:09:46 +0000
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This is a book which readers of sci.virtual-worlds might find of 
interest.  For more information please visit 
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/mitp/recent-books/sci/blath.html

_Spatial Hearing:  The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization_
Revised Edition 
by Jens Blauert

The field of spatial hearing has exploded in the decade or so since
Jens Blauert's work on acoustics was first published in English. This
revised edition adds a new chapter that describes developments in such
areas as auditory virtual reality (a field of application that is
based mainly on the physics of spatial hearing), binaural technology
(modeling speech enhancement by binaural hearing), and spatial
sound-field mapping. The chapter also includes recent research on the
precedence effect that provides clear experimental evidence that
cognition plays a significant role in spatial hearing.

The remaining four chapters cover auditory research procedures and 
psychometric methods, spatial hearing with one sound source, spatial 
hearing with multiple sound sources and in enclosed spaces, and 
progress and trends from 1972 (the first German edition) to 1983 (the 
first English edition)  work that includes research on the physics of 
the external ear, and the application of signal processing theory to 
modeling the spatial hearing process. There is an extensive 
bibliography of more than 900 items.

Jens Blauert is Professor of Acoustics at R|hr-Universitdt Bochum, 
Germany, a Chartered Acoustical Consultant, and Chairman of the Board 
of the European Acoustics Association.

December 1996
ISBN 0-262-02413-6
480 pp., 215 illus. 
$35.00
 

MIT Press*55 Hayward Street*Cambridge, MA  02142*(617)625-8569