Individuals with similar hearing abilities often vary greatly in their ability to successfully understand reverberant speech. Our poor understanding of reverberant speech perception hinders the development of effective treatments. Reverberation temporally smears speech, diminishing onsets which aid successful speech perception. Cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) can be elicited in response to these onsets in continuous speech. This study analyzed the effects of reverberation on CAEPs and related them to perceptual difficulties in reverberant speech perception. We hypothesized that greater reverberation would degrade the cortical responses and increase perceptual difficulties.