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ReviewTrends in hearing

Sound Externalization: A Review of Recent Research.

Virginia Best, Robert Baumgartner, Mathieu Lavandier, Piotr Majdak, Norbert Kopčo

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Review in Trends in hearing. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Virginia BestDepartment of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5535-5736
Robert BaumgartnerAcoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Mathieu LavandierUniv Lyon, ENTPE, Laboratoire Génie Civil et Bâtiment, Vaulx-en-Velin, France.
Piotr MajdakAcoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-1511-6164
Norbert KopčoInstitute of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia.

Funding

Spatial Hearing in Speech MixturesR01DC015760 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI Virginia Ann Best · 2017 to 2026
$3.6M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015760
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sound externalization, or the perception that a sound source is outside of the head, is an intriguing phenomenon that has long interested psychoacousticians. While previous reviews are available, the past few decades have produced a substantial amount of new data.In this review, we aim to synthesize those data and to summarize advances in our understanding of the phenomenon. We also discuss issues related to the definition and measurement of sound externalization and describe quantitative approaches that have been taken to predict the outcomes of externalization experiments. Last, sound externalization is of practical importance for many kinds of hearing technologies. Here, we touch on two examples, discussing the role of sound externalization in augmented/virtual reality systems and bringing attention to the somewhat overlooked issue of sound externalization in wearers of hearing aids.

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Hearing AidsSound LocalizationAcousticsHearingHumansSounddistal attributionin-head localizationsound image externalizationspatial perceptionvirtual acoustics

Identifiers

PMID32914708
PMCPMC7488874

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