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Hearing & Deafness (3)

Hearing & Deafness (3). Auditory Localisation http://www.aip.org/pt/nov99/locsound.html. Demo class. 1pm this Thursday 27th Chichester LT Going through Frequencies, Filters, Excitation patterns etc Using Excel spreadsheet that you can download. Localisation in 3 dimensions.

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Hearing & Deafness (3)

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  1. Hearing & Deafness (3) Auditory Localisation http://www.aip.org/pt/nov99/locsound.html

  2. Demo class • 1pm this Thursday 27th Chichester LT • Going through Frequencies, Filters, Excitation patterns etc • Using Excel spreadsheet that you can download.

  3. Localisation in 3 dimensions • Azimuth (left/right) (Arab. as-sumut, i.e. as = al the + sumut, pl of samt way) • Binaural cues: ITD and ILD • Median-plane (front, up, back, down) • Pinna-induced spectral cues • Head movements • Distance • Absolute level, excess IID (inverse-square law), spectral balance, reverberation

  4. Interaural time-difference - ITD t R t L ITD = t R -t L Maximum c 0.6 ms

  5. Interaural Time Difference (ITD) From David McAlpine Processed in Medial Superior Olive

  6. Right Ear Left Ear The coincidence detection model of Jeffress (1948) is the widely accepted model for low-frequency sound localisation From David McAlpine

  7. Response 0 Interaural Time Difference Right Ear Left Ear From David McAlpine

  8. Response 0 Interaural Time Difference Right Ear Left Ear From David McAlpine

  9. L R R Onset-timeversus ongoing phase differences Natural sounds have both

  10. L R R Works for high- and low-frequency sounds Onset-timeversus ongoing phase differences Does not work for high-frequency pure tones: - no phase locking above 4kHz - phase ambiguity above 1.5 kHz Natural sounds have both

  11. 1 0.5 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 -0.5 -1 Response to Low Frequency tones Inter-spike Intervals time (t) Response to High Frequency tones > 5kHz Random intervals time (t) Phase-locking 2 periods 1 period nerve spike

  12. 500 Hz: period = 2ms L R R L lags by 1.5 ms or L leads by 0.5 ms ? Phase Ambiguity This particular case is not a problem since max ITD = 0.6 ms But for frequencies above 1500 Hz it IS a problem

  13. 2000 Hz: period = 0.5 ms L R R L lags by 0.3 ms or L leads by 0.2 ms ? Phase Ambiguity Both possible times are less than the maximum ITD of 0.6 ms

  14. Anatomy of the auditory system

  15. Interaural Level Difference (ILD) From David McAlpine Processed in Lateral Superior Olive

  16. ILD is greater for higher frequencies Interaural level differences calculated for a source in the horizontal plane. The source is at an azimuth q of 10° (green curve), 45° (red), or 90° (blue) relative to straight ahead. The calculations assume that the ears are at opposite poles of a rigid sphere.

  17. Anatomy of the auditory system

  18. Raleigh’s Duplex theoryfor pure tones • Low frequency pure tones (<1500 Hz) localised by interaural time differences • High frequency pure tones localised by intensity differences

  19. Raleigh’s Duplex theoryfor pure tones (2) • 1. Low frequency tones (<1500 Hz) localised by phase differences: • Very small interaural intensity difference for low-frequency tones. • Phase locking present for low frequency tones (<4kHz).

  20. Raleigh’s Duplex theoryfor pure tones (2) • 1. Low frequency tones (<1500 Hz) localised by phase differences: • Phase locking present for low frequency tones (<4kHz). • Limited by phase ambiguity: Maximum ITD= 670 µs corresponding to a whole cycle at 1500 Hz (the upper limit for binaural phase sensitivity)

  21. Phase ambiguity not a problem for complex high-frequency tones 1/200th sec Freq 1800 1600 2000

  22. Raleigh’s Duplex theoryfor pure tones (3) • High (and close low) frequency tones localised by intensity differences • Shadow cast by head greater at high (20 dB at 6 kHz) than low frequencies (3 dB at 500 Hz) i.e. head acts as a lowpass filter. • For close sounds (<1.5m) the inverse square law gives intensity differences between the ears for all frequencies. These differences vary with azimuth independently of any head-shadow effect. Beyond 1.5m the difference in level between the ears due to this factor is less than 1 dB.

  23. Azimuth for complex sounds • Complex sounds contain both low and high frequencies • But the dominant azimuth information is the ITDs of the low frequencies

  24. Precedence (or Haas) effect Titrate blue ITD vs red ITD to center the single sound Lots of red ITD needed to offset a little blue

  25. Pinna notch

  26. Head-Related Transfer Function: Median Plane

  27. Anatomy of the auditory system

  28. Distance • More distant sounds are: • Quieter (inverse-square law) • More muffled (high frequencies don’t travel so well) • More reverberant (direct is quieter relative to reflected) For very close sounds, the difference in distance from the source to the two ears becomes significant -> excess IID from inverse-square law.

  29. Binaural masking level difference Explain by simply Adding or subtracting the signals at the two ears (after adjusting their levels) (Durlach’s Equalisation and Cancellation model)

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