Perception of changes in loudness

ABSTRACT _Neuhoff replies_ — Canévet and his colleagues suggest that their findings address dynamic loudness change and are inconsistent with my recent discovery of a bias for rising

intensity tones1. However, the two sets of experiments address fundamentally different questions. Canévet _et al._ 's listeners were asked to make judgements about loudness, whereas my

listeners were asked to make judgements about the amount of dynamic change. Essentially, their listeners answered the question “How loud is it now?” by assigning a number to the loudness of

a changing intensity sound at various times throughout the stimulus duration. This provided a discrete measure of loudness at various snapshots in time. Listeners in my experiments were

specifically asked to ignore the overall loudness of the sounds and to make summary judgements about the amount of loudness change, essentially answering the question “How much did it change

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INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Department of Psychology, Lafayette College, Easton, 18042-1781, Pennsylvania, USA John G. Neuhoff Authors * John G. Neuhoff View author publications

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