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PsychoacousticsAudio EngineeringEstablished

Head-related transfer function

How the head, ears and torso filter a sound depending on its direction, giving the ear its spatial cues.

Head-related transfer functionBinaural recordingSound localizationAudio recordingAuditory perceptionSpatial audioStereophonyInteraural time differenceInteraural level difference

At a glance

Type
waves
Disciplines 2
PsychoacousticsAudio Engineering
Mental models 0
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Role in the graph
Connector

Key signals

Cross-disciplinary reach
Disciplines
2
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Audio Engineering
Evidence & development

Dependencies

What this concept builds on and what it makes possible — derived from the atlas’s dependency, causal and structural relations, not from every related edge.

Enables · leads to

Binaural recordingdepends onHead-related transfer functionEstablished

Open Binaural recording →

binaural recording depends on head-related transfer function.

Mechanism: It captures sound already shaped by a head's HRTF.

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Structural role & consequence

Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.

  • Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 2 of 2 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.

    atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.

  • Structural neighbourhood: 2 → 8 → 24 concepts reachable within 3 hops.

    structural · Structural reach — being reachable is not the same as being understood.

  • All 2 of its relationships stay within its own discipline — a field-specific concept in the current atlas.

    structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.

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cross-field
2 within-field, 0 cross-field

0 of 2 relations carry evidence · concept has a verified source

Strengths & constraints

Constraints

  • Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
  • No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation

Conditions

  • Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural

Dependency radial

What this concept builds on (left) and what it makes possible (right) — derived from dependency and causal relations.

Binaural recordingHead-related transfer…◀ builds onenables ▶

What builds on this

1 concept build on this directly, 1 in total, across 2 disciplines.

Audio EngineeringPsychoacoustics

Structural downstream reach along dependency edges — not a claim of historical necessity.

Seen through each discipline

How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.

Psychoacoustics

Through this lens it connects to Sound localization and Binaural recording.

Head-related transfer function through the Psychoacoustics lens →

Audio Engineering

Through this lens it connects to Binaural recording.

Head-related transfer function through the Audio Engineering lens →

Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.

The scientific picture
  • Connects 2 other ideas across 2 disciplines.
  • Most of its connections are of the “Dependency” kind.

Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.

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