PSYC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Musical Note, Real Face, Natural Sounds

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 212
• Professor: Reza Farivar

Document Summary

Intensity of the sound- louder, perceived as being closer to you- tell you your approx distance from a source alone. If an object is closer to one side of your head than the other, the effect on your auditory perception: The first comment was that it was the intensity of the sound, but the intensity diff. between two ears is one of the strongest cues for sound location. Whispering in someones ear- whisper in one ear, the sound is faint enough to not get through to the other side of the persons head, so the other person next to them cannot hear it. Any sound coming from one side, will be stronger heard on one ear than the other. Those two cues- inter-aural time diff and inter-aural intensity diff. - those are great for telling sounds coming from the right side to the left and maybe a little bit behind as well.