Peripheral auditory processing and investigations of the "precedence effect" which utilize successive transient stimuli

This article addresses how a consideration of peripheral auditory processin g can help to understand experiments concerning binaural precedence that em ploy successive binaural transients. It appears that much of the patterning of the behavioral data is amenable to an explanation based on peripheral i nteractions that result from auditory filtering and the functioning of audi tory hair cells in combination with a binaural model based on cross correla tion. A noteworthy aspect of this approach is that it does not include inhi bitory mechanisms like those commonly invoked to explain binaural precedenc e. (C) 2001 Acoustical Society of America.