Individual loudness functions determined from direct comparisons of loudness intervals

Loudness Determined by Power Summation

Loudness and Loudness Discrimination Revisited

We present evidence that the psychophysical function relating loudness to sound pressure is governed by a nonlinear gain control system, one of whose functions is to protect the sensory system from overload. Specifically, the loudness function is altered nonlinearly when loud sounds are added in an identification task previously containing only soft sounds but not vice

Variable Loudness at Individual Excitatory Synapses

cells expressing a specific receptor, or do they integrate results of a combination of optical, electrophysiological, and pharmacological experiments to probe AMPA re-sensory stimuli from multiple subpopulations of taste neurons? Hoon et al. have shown that 20%–30% of ceptor occupancy at excitatory hippocampal synapses. They conclude that AMPA receptors are generally far taste receptor cells in...

Temporal integration of loudness, loudness discrimination, and the form of the loudness function.

Temporal integration for loudness of 5-kHz tones was measured as a function of level between 2 and 60 dB SL. Absolute thresholds and levels required to produce equal loudness were measured for 2-, 10-, 50-, and 250-ms tones using adaptive, two-interval, two-alternative forced-choice procedures. The procedure for loudness balances was new and employed ten interleaved tracks to obtain concurrent ...

Disturbances of loudness perception.

This article reviews information on some auditory disorders that have in common a disturbance in loudness perception. The perceptual disturbances in these disorders have interchangeably been labeled "hyperacusis," "dysacusis," or "phonophobia." Our question concerns whether the loudness disturbances associated with these auditory disorders are sufficiently different as not to justify the equiva...