Subject: localization/hearing From: herzfeld <herzfeld(at)ALUM.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:30:03 -0500Hello Martin and Eckard, The part of the e-mail: "If I recall correctly, Bob Fendrich told me that there are people who lost hearing but paradoxically they are able to indicate the location of a sound source." caught my attention. In the book: "Foundations of Modern Auditory Theory" Jerry V. Tobias (ed) Academic Press 1972 vol 2. Chapter Eleven, page 467, Tobias himself wrote: "If the interaural-time-disparity thresholds are mediated in a cochleo-cochlear pathway that is independent of the pathways that transmit the nmore common sorts of auditory information on loudness and pitch, then somewhere there may be a person with a very special kind of nerve deafness: Although he cannot hear sounds, he can tell where they are coming from. If someone like that exists, it is not hard to imagine reasons why his case is unreported." I have never heard of nor read about such a person, but would like to follow up the trail. Could someone put me in touch with Bob Fendrich ? Fred Eckard Blumschein wrote: > > Martin, > >.............. > > If I recall correctly, Bob Fendrich told me that there are people who lost > hearing but paradoxically they are able to indicate the location of a sound > source. > ................... > Eckard > http://home.arcor.de/eckard.blumschein -- Fred Herzfeld, MIT'54 78 Glynn Marsh Drive #59 Brunswick, Ga. 31525-0504 Tel: (912) 262-1276