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Area of Science:

  • Auditory perception
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Spatial hearing

Background:

  • Sound localization relies on integrating auditory cues over time.
  • Onset dominance is a known phenomenon in auditory processing, where initial sounds receive more attention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate temporal weighting functions in sound localization of click trains.
  • To determine the perceptual importance of individual clicks within a train for spatial judgments.

Main Methods:

  • Listeners performed a free-field pointing task to localize trains of Gabor clicks.
  • Multiple regression analysis estimated perceptual weights for each click in the train.
  • Click train durations were varied randomly across trials.

Main Results:

  • Temporal weighting functions revealed onset dominance and significant upweighting of late-arriving sounds.
  • The greatest post-onset weights were consistently assigned to clicks near the end of the train.
  • This pattern held across various click train durations.

Conclusions:

  • Late-arriving sound is crucial for accurate sound localization, challenging simple feedforward recovery models.
  • The findings support a recency effect in auditory temporal integration for spatial perception.