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Patrick M Zurek1, Kourosh Saberi

  • 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. pat@sens.com

Perception & Psychophysics
|April 18, 2003
PubMed
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The precedence effect in binaural hearing is strong, with perceived sound location strongly linked to the leading sound component's interaural delay. Models incorporating onset effects and bandpass correlation best predict these findings.

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Area of Science:

  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Computational Auditory Scene Analysis

Background:

  • The precedence effect is crucial for sound localization in complex auditory environments.
  • Understanding how the brain integrates binaural cues over time is essential for explaining auditory perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the precedence effect in binaural hearing using transient stimuli.
  • To evaluate computational models predicting the perceived location of sounds based on interaural delays.

Main Methods:

  • Subjects adjusted interaural delay to match perceived sound location for stimuli with leading and lagging components.
  • Varied stimulus coherence, duration, and inter-component delay.
  • Tested models based on temporal weighting, bandpass correlation, and onset mechanisms.

Main Results:

  • A moderate to strong precedence effect was observed across all tested conditions.
  • Models incorporating both onset processing and bandpass correlation accurately predicted lateralization data.
  • Models emphasizing only bandpass correlation or lacking onset effects were less accurate.

Conclusions:

  • The precedence effect relies on both strong onset processing and bandpass correlation analysis.
  • Two distinct modeling approaches, integrating onset and correlation, are proposed.
  • These findings advance our understanding of binaural cue integration in auditory perception.

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