Statistics of natural reverberation enable perceptual separation of sound and space [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]

In everyday listening, sound reaches our ears directly from a source as well as indirectly via reflections known as reverberation. Reverberation profoundly distorts the sound from a source, yet humans can both identify sound sources and distinguish environments from the resulting sound, via mechanisms that remain unclear. The core computational...

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