The pitch of a sound affects where it appears to come from
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.027829
Los Angeles Times : The use of terms “high” and “low” to describe the pitch of a sound is common across many cultures and may be tied to our perception of where those sounds come from. Cesare Parise of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and his colleagues asked test subjects to listen to a variety of sounds recorded in the countryside. The subjects were seated in a chair facing a wall behind which a speaker array was hidden at roughly eye level. When asked to point to where they thought a sound came from, the test subjects usually pointed head-high or higher for high-pitched noises and lower for low-pitched ones. When the test subjects were turned on their sides, the effect was still present. Although cognitive mapping seems to be present in most cultures, its origin is unclear.
