6-2 Short Paper: Auditory Localizationsouthern New Hampshire

6-2 Short Paper: Auditory LocalizationSouthern New Hampshire UniversityPSY-307-14515-M01 Sensation and Perception 09:18:26 GMT -05:00The three cues that scientists have identified as being most important in human auditory localization are interaural time difference (ITD), interaural level difference (ILD) and the shape of the pinna (the protuberance outside the ear). ITD and ILD are binaural cues that enable finer positioning of a sound source. Interaural time difference is the difference in the delay between when a sound reaches either ear: the ear closer to the source perceives the sound slightly earlier than the ear further away (Yantis & Abrams, 2016). Interaural level difference refers to the difference in the intensity of the sound between the two ears; a sound arriving at one ear is heard at a greater intensity than the other ear, which hears a similarly situated source at a slightly attenuated intensity.Doing this activity provided a lot of information about how ITDs and ILDs influence perception of where the sound comes from. Clicking on the speaker at different angles provided pertinent information about the direction from which the sound was coming from. Given my exceptional hearing abilities, even the slightest sound change, which are what the activity