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WE have previously described experiments showing that the apparent position of a sound source in space can be moved about the horizontal plane if sound is additionally fed by a single headphone to one ear1; the magnitude of this apparent movement depends largely on the frequency and intensity relations between the loudspeaker and headphone sounds. As we investigated this phenomenon, which we regard as an example of binaural interaction, we noticed that if two headphones were used instead of one a single sound image was perceived the apparent distance of which from the listener could be controlled by changing loudspeaker-to-headphone loudness relations. The work recorded here examines this illusion of distance more closely.
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BUTLER, R., NAUNTON, R. An Auditory Illusion of Distance. Nature 203, 1201 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031201a0
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