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Publications: Studies on the Precedence Effect

Litovsky, R.Y. and Godar, S.P. (2010). Difference in precedence effect between children and adults signifies development of sound localization abilities in complex listening tasks, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 128(4): 1979-1991. PDF Link

Miller, S., Litovsky, R.Y. and Kluender, K. (2009). Predicting echo thresholds from speech onset characteristics. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., Electronic Letters. 125(4):EL134-40. PMID: 19354351 PDF Link

Dizon RM, Litovsky RY. (2004) Localization dominance in the median-sagittal plane: effect of stimulus duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(6):3142-55. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Delgutte B. (2002) Neural correlates of the precedence effect in the inferior colliculus: effect of localization cues. Journal of Neurophysiology 87(2):976-94. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Fligor BJ, Tramo MJ. (2002) Functional role of the human inferior colliculus in binaural hearing. Hearing Research 165(1-2):177-88. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Shinn-Cunningham BG. (2001) Investigation of the relationship among three common measures of precedence: fusion, localization dominance, and discrimination suppression. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109(1):346-58. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Hawley ML, Fligor BJ, Zurek PM. (2000) Failure to unlearn the precedence effect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108(5), 2345-52. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Colburn HS, Yost WA, Guzman SJ. (1999) The precedence effect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106(4 Pt 1):1633-54. PDF Link

Delgutte B, Joris PX, Litovsky RY, Yin TC. (1999) Receptive fields and binaural interactions for virtual-space stimuli in the cat inferior colliculus. Journal of Neurophysiology 81(6):2833-51. PDF Link

Litovsky RY. (1998) Physiological studies of the precedence effect in the inferior colliculus of the kitten. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 103(6):3139-52. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Yin TC. (1998) Physiological studies of the precedence effect in the inferior colliculus of the cat. I. Correlates of psychophysics. Journal of Neurophysiology 80(3), 1285-301. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Yin TC. (1998) Physiological studies of the precedence effect in the inferior colliculus of the cat. II. Neural mechanisms. Journal of Neurophysiology 80(3):1302-16. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Rakerd B, Yin TC, Hartmann WM. (1997) Psychophysical and physiological evidence for a precedence effect in the median sagittal plane. Journal of Neurophysiology 77(4):2223-6. PDF Link

Litovsky RY. (1997) Developmental changes in the precedence effect: estimates of minimum audible angle. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102(3):1739-45. PDF Link

Litovsky RY, Macmillan NA. (1994) Sound localization precision under conditions of the precedence effect: effects of azimuth and standard stimuli. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 96(2 Pt 1):752-8. PDF Link

Clifton RK, Freyman RL, Litovsky RY, McCall D. (1994) Listeners' expectations about echoes can raise or lower echo threshold. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 95(3):1525-33. PDF Link

Freyman RL, Clifton RK, Litovsky RY. (1991) Dynamic processes in the precedence effect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 90(2 Pt 1):874-84. PDF Link

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