'CRYING WITH TWO EARS.'

Listening with Two Ears

Listening with two ears instead of one

For many years (e.g., Cherry, 1953), hearing care professionals have understood the advantage of listening with two ears compared with one. In addition to improved intelligibility of speech in quiet, noisy, and reverberant environments, binaural versus monaural listening improves perceived sound quality and decreases the effort listeners must expend in order to understand a target voice of inte...

Listening with two ears instead of one

For many years (e.g., Cherry, 1953), hearing care professionals have understood the advantage of listening with two ears compared with one. In addition to improved intelligibility of speech in quiet, noisy, and reverberant environments, binaural versus monaural listening improves perceived sound quality and decreases the effort listeners must expend in order to understand a target voice of inte...

Efficient listening with two ears: Dichotic time compression and spatialization

To increase the amount of information we can collect in a given amount of time, it is possible to employ signal processing techniques to speed up the rate at which recorded sounds are presented to the ears. Besides simply speeding up the playback, it is possible to auditorily display the signals in a way that allows us to process and interpret the signals more efficiently by exploiting the use ...

Some Further Experiments upon the Recognition of Speech, with One and with Two Ears

The experiments described here continue a series reported in this Journal earlier. A number of objective tests are described, directed towards the general problem concerning the faculty we possess of perceiving only one acoustic world under normal conditions (in spite of having two ears) and yet, if our ears be stimulated by different signals, artificially, we can attend to one or the other of ...