Do the Semicircular Canals Play a Part in Directional Hearing?

Abstract

Investigations dealing with directional hearing, i.e. the localization of sound, were published already in the 19th century but most studies on this subject appeared during the 1920′s. They were not very numerous and no complete agreement was reached regarding the factor determining the direction of the perceived sound. These studies were partly stimulated by the First World War. Recently this theme was again taken up by several authors at the First International Congress of Audiology at Leiden 1953.