Echoes and reverberation convey room geometry and surface properties to listeners

Evidence

Reflected and reverberated sound can also be localized, which may lead to perception of the attributes of the geometry of the room and the acoustic properties of the surfaces in it. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1385

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier One Square Inch of Silence material about how soundscape reveals environmental structure — auditory spatial awareness as environmental sensing, relevant to acoustic ecology.