Single-ear listeners can still localize sound sources but with degraded accuracy

Evidence

Another case where monaural (spectral) cues are of the utmost importance is when a listener has only one ear in effective use. Localization of sound sources is still possible, although the accuracy is strongly degraded (Blauert, 1996). — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1456

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1456
• XREF: connects to: Human sound localization is remarkably accurate given it processes only two ear signals. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1423; The ear’s 1-2 ms time resolution makes monaural temporal cues unusable for localization. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1450; Humans localize single sources well but fail at source distributions — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1487 (+1 more)