AUDITORY AND NON-AUDITORY FACTORS THAT POTENTIALLY INFLUENCE VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC IMAGERY

Research into the localization of virtual acoustic stimuli is often done in isolation from both acoustical and nonacoustical factors that are present in real-world environmental contexts. The fact that the commercial industry often separates "audio" from "visual" engineering is a reflection not only of hardware expertise but also of the specialization of psychophysical knowledge. For example, our collective knowledge of psychoacoustics far exceeds our knowledge of the multimodal interaction...