1Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Fort, KR Road, Bangalore
2Student, Third year MBBS, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Fort, KR Road, Bangalore
Online published on 20 July, 2019.
Research studies have shown that there are differences in the neuroanatomy of males and females. The aim of our study was to find whether there are any gender differences in the spatial localization of sound.
A total of eighteen blindfolded subjects, consisting of nine males and nine age-matched females with normal hearing, were subjected to the spatial bisection task where they had to localize the second sound, whose location varied from-20° to +20° in the azimuthal plane, while the first and third sound were fixed at-20° and +20° respectively. The Minimum audible angle task was administered, where the subjects had to say whether the 2 sounds presented were from same location or from two different speakers.
There was no significant difference between the males and females with respect to their performance of spatial bisection task and minimum audible angle task.
Gender difference, spatial bisection task, Minimum audible angle task, spatial localization of sound
