Cochlear implants (CIs) help many patients to understand speech in quiet and in acoustically dry environments. However, patients still encounter great difficulties in situations of speech-in-noise or in reverberation. The precedence- effect paradigm can be used to study the impact of reflections on perception. It describes the perceptual suppression of a delayed sound copy in the presence of a leading sound. From the view of auditory scene analysis, precedence can be seen as the inability to segregate the lead and lag sounds into two separate objects.     «

Cochlear implants (CIs) help many patients to understand speech in quiet and in acoustically dry environments. However, patients still encounter great difficulties in situations of speech-in-noise or in reverberation. The precedence- effect paradigm can be used to study the impact of reflections on perception. It describes the perceptual suppression of a delayed sound copy in the presence of a leading sound. From the view of auditory scene analysis, precedence can be seen as the inability to seg...     »