Function

Articles categorized under FUNCTION will stress the basic operation of the auditory systems. As an example, to distinguish the Anatomy and Function categories – an article under Anatomy might present annotated drawing(s) of the three parts of the human ear; an article under Function might describe the mechanism that can provide a modest measure of "biological" protection from certain types of high-level sounds. Other Function articles might consider how we localize sounds in our three-dimensional environment or might examine situations in which speech sounds have unusual perceptual characteristics.