Methodological factors influencing loudness of short duration sounds

✍ Scribed by S.D.G. Stephens

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 694 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-460X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0022-460x(74)80330-5

✦ Synopsis

Three experiments were performed showing the relevance of methodological considerations to the apparent loudness of short duration equal-energy tone-bursts. In the first, the effect of slight modifications of the instructions on the results was shown. In the second the different results obtained with two techniques of loudness evaluation were studied. In the final experiment the difference in the loudness configuration of equal-energy tone-bursts evaluated by loudness estimation and loudness balance techniques was emphasized. With both techniques, however, a frequency-dependent critical duration was found.