In-Head Localization
"Sound localization" refers to one's ability to figure out where a sound is coming from in space, despite hearing it from a single location.
This is a complex trick to pull off and generally requires multiple sound-parsing tools (in the case of most mammals, ears) spaced just right and located at the proper place on the body so that the sound data can be…
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