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Whether a sound is made by prey or predator, or is that of a conspeciflc courting or signaling danger, there is little doubt that being able to locate its source in space is of great utility to an animal. One might expect, therefore, that a wide-ranging research interest in animal auditory localization would exist and would have spawned a vast literature. The contrary is true if the concern is with psychophysical determinations of sound localization and sound lateralization in terrestrial mammals, as is the case with this chapter. (Judgements about the position in space of a sound source are referred to as localization. Lateralization indicates “localization” within the head of a fused sound image that occurs when separate acoustic signals are delivered to each ear through headphones.)
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Gourevitch, G. (1980). Directional Hearing in Terrestrial Mammals. In: Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Comparative Studies of Hearing in Vertebrates. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8074-0_12
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