Binaural Loudness Summation
The phenomenon of binaural summation is considered one of the practical advantages of hearing with two ears. Binaural loudness summation (binaural additivity) has a long history of experimentation. This includes binaural loudness, comparisons between monaural and binaural thresholds, and comparisons of suprathreshold monaural and binaural loudness functions. As early as 1929, von Békésy1 and…
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Studies have reported that listening with two ears is better than listening with one, especially in binaural understanding of speech in a noisy environment. This binaural advantage is believed to arise from a combination of head diffraction, redundancy, and binaural squelch effects. Head diffraction has been discussed previously, and binaural redundancy is being reserved for…
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