“…Acoustically, in everyday situations, the two ears provide the listener with a listener-specific combination of spatial cues that include interaural time and intensity differences (ITDs and IIDs, respectively), as well as spectral cues caused by acoustical filtering of the pinnae (Blauert, 1997a). Together, these cues, captured by individualized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs), allow the brain to create a clear, punctate internal representation of the location of sound sources in the environment (Majdak et al, 2019;Middlebrooks, 2015).…”