A comparison of the temporal weighting of annoyance and loudness

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3168-3178

  Dittrich, Kerstin ^a,b   Oberfeld, Daniel ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOODNESS OF FIT; NONUNIFORM; PERCEPTUAL WEIGHTS;

WEIGHING;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYSIS; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; NOISE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SOUND; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549114615     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3238233     Document Type: Article

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