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primacy effect
primacy effect In auditory perception, the primacy effect is the tendency for the earliest parts of a sound to have more influence on judged loudness than later parts.
In auditory perception, the primacy effect is the tendency for the earliest parts of a sound to have more influence on judged loudness than later parts. This influence decreases over time, so the beginning of a time-varying sound is weighted more heavily than its later portions.