We will conduct an informal open discussion of issues related to stimulus control, choice and design of experiments, theoretical models, and general research strategy in binaural hearing. Topics to be considered include acoustical monitoring of stimuli, variability and drift in subject performance, techniques for determining the shape of binaural images, time‐intensity trading, the relation of lateralization to detection, similarities and differences in current theoretical models, the inadequacy of many previous experiments to critically test and separate models, the incorporation of multiple sampling of inputs into models, and the effects of long‐term previous experience in natural environments on the perception of laboratory stimuli (and the possibility of taking explicit account of such effects in the construction of models. [Work supported by NIH.]