... of information. In humans, a series of interrelated phenomena lead to directional cues accumulating with repetitions of acoustic subunits, but directional information is not weighted evenly across the course of the signal. The precedence effect arises when, for certain delays between a leading and a lagging...

... of related perceptions are collectively referred to as the ‘precedence effect, and this has been reviewed extensively ( Blauert, 1997 ; Litovsky et al., 1999 ). We concentrate below on those aspects that are directly relevant to the owl. A subject's perceptual experiences under experimental precedence...

... are summarized as the precedence effect. This study investigates how echolocating bats deal with multiple reflections of their sonar emissions from different spatial positions. In a two-alternative, forced choice paradigm, a study was made of the extent to which the echolocating bats Megaderma lyra...