Conveners
A15.01 Spatial Hearing: Modeling and Applications: S107
- Ville Pulkki (Aalto University)
- Piotr Majdak (Acoustics Research Institute, รAW)
A15.01 Spatial Hearing: Modeling and Applications: S296
- Ville Pulkki (Aalto University)
- Piotr Majdak (Acoustics Research Institute, รAW)
A15.01 Spatial Hearing: Modeling and Applications: S297
- Ville Pulkki (Aalto University)
- Piotr Majdak (Acoustics Research Institute, รAW)
A15.01 Spatial Hearing: Modeling and Applications: P529
- Piotr Majdak (Acoustics Research Institute, รAW)
- Ville Pulkki (Aalto University)
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Katarina C. Poole (Imperial College London)09/09/2026, 08:40A15 Psychoacoustics
Spatial hearing depends on internal representations of acoustic cues that vary across space. Elevation perception relies on learned spectral cues from pinna filtering, making it uniquely dependent on prior knowledge rather than instantaneous acoustic information alone. It remains unclear whether listeners track statistical properties of elevation consistent with Bayesian inference and whether...
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Roberto Barumerli (Imperial College London)09/09/2026, 09:00A15 Psychoacoustics
Accurately evaluating sound localisation performance is essential for developing and validating methods to personalise head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). Localisation in the median plane is typically summarised with complementary metrics: polar error for local precision, polar gain for spectral decoding ability, and quadrant error rate for front-back confusions. These metrics rely on...
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Mathias Dietz (Universitรคt Oldenburg)09/09/2026, 09:20A15 Psychoacoustics
Human spatial hearing relies on the integration of multiple binaural cues, including interaural time differences (ITDs), interaural level differences (ILDs), and spectral information. While psychophysical experiments have characterized how these cues are combined across a wide range of conditions, linking perceptual behavior to underlying neural mechanisms remains a central challenge. Deep...
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Bernhard Laback (Austrian Academy of Sciences)09/09/2026, 09:40A15 Psychoacoustics
The perceived location of a sound is influenced by preceding (precursor) sounds. In the horizontal plane, lateral precursors shift the perceived location of a subsequent probe sound toward the midline, whereas central precursors push perceived locations further toward the sides. These effects are typically stronger for headphone presentation than for loudspeaker playback in anechoic...
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Nicolas Epain (L-Acoustics)09/09/2026, 10:20A15 Psychoacoustics
Immersive live music productions promise three key benefits for audiences: audioโvisual consistency (you hear sound where you see it), improved source separation and intelligibility through spatial unmasking, and new creative possibilities for mixing engineers. Yet it remains unclear how to assess whether a given venue is suitable for this type of production, based on its measurable acoustic...
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Isaac Lambert (University of Southampton)09/09/2026, 10:40A15 Psychoacoustics
Virtual sound imaging systems, such as those which work on the principle of crosstalk cancellation (CTC), are often evaluated by means of localization accuracy. For crosstalk cancellation systems, high localization accuracy requires that the actual listener position is the same as the target listener position. In this paper, the inputs to a binaural localization model are varied based on the...
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Jesus Vaquerizo-Serrano (La Salle, Universitat Ramรณn Llull)09/09/2026, 11:00A15 Psychoacoustics
Audiovisual immersive rooms represent emerging virtualization spaces that address the individual isolation inherent to head-tracked binaural Virtual Reality (VR). However, auralizing highly reverberant environments remains a challenge, as reverberant energy degrades acoustic cues essential for human spatial localization. This study evaluates sound source localization in reverberant fields...
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Cathrina Veigel (Technical University of Denmark)09/09/2026, 11:20A15 Psychoacoustics
Modeling speech intelligibility in spatially separated versus co-located masker conditions can reveal how listeners use spatial cues, such as interaural time and level differences, to separate speech from noise. Symmetric listening conditions, with maskers symmetrically positioned around a frontal target are particularly relevant because they approximate realistic situations with interfering...
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Gamze Cengiz (Middle East Technical University Graduate School of Informatics)09/09/2026, 14:20A15 Psychoacoustics
Spatial disorientation (SD) is a perceptual phenomenon particularly affecting pilots, contributing to approximately one-third of all aviation mishaps. While the vestibular, visual, and auditory systems collectively maintain spatial orientation, the potential of spatially controlled auditory stimuli as SD countermeasures remains under-explored. This paper presents the design, protocol, and...
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Yeganeh Modaresnia (P. J. ล afรกrik University)09/09/2026, 14:40A15 Psychoacoustics
Auditory spatial attention is shaped by both stimulus-driven orienting and perceptual interactions between sequential sounds. This study examined whether auditory cueing effects in spatial discrimination arise from attentional orienting or cueโtarget similarity. Eleven participants judged the direction of a small horizontal shift between two โbuzzโ sounds while maintaining central fixation....
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Felix Perfler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (รAW))09/09/2026, 15:00A15 Psychoacoustics
Individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) can be numerically calculated from 3D ear meshes with the help of the software package Mesh2HRTF. However, the process from the individual ear geometry to a valid project for Mesh2HRTF can be tedious as it involves many steps: head generation, ear stitching, mesh grading, and the setup of the project directories. Here, we introduce Pinna2HRTF,...
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Bernhard U. Seeber (Technische Universitรคt Mรผnchen)09/09/2026, 15:00A15 Psychoacoustics
Auditory scene analysis describes the ability of the human auditory system to separate a mixture of sounds into the individual sources. The separation is based on bottom-up grouping information following Gestalt principles, such as harmonicity, onset synchrony and common modulation in amplitude and frequency, and learned top-down information. We investigated the separation mechanisms of a...
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