Peripheral auditory processing and the precedence effect

Abstract

This work addresses how a consideration of peripheral auditory processing can help one to understand the relative salience of binaural information conveyed by successive binaural transients in precedence experiments. It appears that much of the variability in the data is amenable to an explanation based on peripheral interactions that result from auditory filtering and the functioning of hair cells in combination with a binaural model based on cross correlation. This approach does not include inhibitory mechanisms that are commonly considered as being necessary in order to account for the precedence effect. [Work supported by NIH.]