One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person's ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals to pinpoint the location of danger, ...

Ihlefeld and Shapley wondered if the same neural principle applied to sound localization: whether it is less accurate for softer sounds than for louder ones. But this would depart from the prevailing ...

For the past 50 years a particular model of how animals locate the source of sounds has driven much of the research on auditory systems. It now seems, however, that this model might not apply to ...