precedence effect

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precedence effect (plural precedence effects)

  1. (acoustics) The psychoacoustical phenomenon in which two versions of the same sound are presented separated by a sufficiently short time delay (below the listener's echo threshold), listeners perceive a single auditory event; its perceived spatial location is dominated by the location of the first-arriving sound (the first wavefront).

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