One of the fascinating features of human hearing is its ability to localize sound. While the human ear usually does this with binaural cues, it is, in fact, possible to locate sound direction with ...

Ishikawa, Japan-- The ability to locate sounds in the surrounding environment is a remarkable feature of the human ear. Typically, people with good hearing use both ears to detect and interpret ...

A stereo sound system will give you a good feel for where instruments have been placed in the soundscape created by the production team. And there are headphones that can custom tune the listening ...

In 1816 a French doctor named Rene Laennec wanted to listen to a patient's heartbeat. Rather than just stick his ear against the skin, Laennec rolled up paper into a cylinder. Voila! The heart sounded ...