The position‐variable model [R. M. Stern, Jr. and H. S. Colburn, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64, 127–140 (1978)] is extended to describe the subjective lateral position of tones as a function of frequency and ITD, and the lateralization of bandpass noise as a function of bandwidth, ITD, and interaural phase shift. The two major modifications made to the model are (1) the use of a frequency‐dependent form of the function that expresses the relative number of binaural coincidence detectors as a function of their characteristic delay and (2) additional processing of the display of interaural cross correlation to emphasize those regions of the function which exhibit peaks at the same internal delay across a range of frequencies. For most naturally occurring broadband stimuli, these regions indicate the set of primary modes of the corresponding cross‐correlation functions, thereby enabling the central processor to determine without ambiguity the value of ITD present in the stimulus. The extended model describes latera...