Loudness changes induced by a proximal sound: Loudness enhancement, loudness recalibration, or both?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2137-2148

  Oberfeld, Daniel ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

LOUDNESS; LOUDNESS RECALIBRATION; MASKERS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND;

EID: 34047262336     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2710433     Document Type: Article

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