… be estimated from some interaural time difference? — and exactly how the computation is performed. Hypotheses concerning these details can be and are tested against experimental observations, both of how people perform on tests (point to the loud noise, please) and of how populations of neurons respond to stimuli. There’s pretty stable agreement about what would count as evidence for or against hypotheses of thi…
…what is being computed — what direction should be estimated from some interaural time difference? — and exactly how the computation is performed. Hypotheses concerning these details can be and are tested against experimental observations, both …