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This talk explores how the echoes and reverberations in small rooms influence acoustic cues and listener perception. Behavior on psychophysical tasks ranging from sound localization to understanding speech in noise (performed in both real rooms and "virtual auditory space") will be reviewed.

Comparison of behavioral results with the acoustic waveforms reaching a listener's ears and with early neural representations of spatial cues will illustrate that even small levels of reverberation can have large effects on what a listener hears.

Audio demonstrations will show that spatial hearing ability is quite robust in spite of the distorting effects of echoes and reverberation in ordinary, moderate-sized rooms.

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http://www.bu.edu/hrc/

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