The auditory and visual systems encode target location in fundamentally different ways. Nevertheless, the two modalities must provide a common representation of space to properly identify and localize ...

Prof. Emeritus Robert A. Butler, whose research focused on hearing—particularly involving the localization of sound and auditory perception—died Feb. 5 after a brief illness. He was 98 years old.

Picture this test: You stand with your eyes closed and arms stretched in front of you while a voice from a stationary loudspeaker located two meters away narrates a series of sentences. Then you're ...