Abstract:

Audition is a spatial perceptual modality. We learn about the locations of sound sources through audition because sounds appear in auditory experience to be located at a distance in a given direction, near their sources. Sounds do not phenomenologically appear in audition to travel or to fill space. The wave view of sounds, however, entails that sounds change locations in the medium over time. Unless auditory experience is systematically illusory with respect to the locations of sounds, sounds do not travel. Furthermore, unless auditory experience involves the projective error of mistaking temporal features of one's auditory experience for temporal features of sounds, sounds do not travel.

Keywords: location; locational hearing; illusion; spatial audition; spatial perception; duration

Document Type: Research article