Spectro‐temporal enhancement measured by loudness matching

Assessing growth of loudness in children by cross-modality matching.

This study examined the clinical feasibility, validity, and reliability of loudness growth assessment using cross-modality matching (CMM) between line length and loudness in 16 children 4 to 12 years old with normal hearing or bilateral sensorineural hearing losses ranging from moderate to severe in degree. Eight adult listeners with normal hearing were used as a comparison group. Loudness grow...

Automatic Long-Term Loudness and Dynamics Matching

Traditional audio level control devices, such as automatic gain controls (AGCs) and compressors, generally have little or no advance knowledge of the dynamic characteristics of the remainder of the current audio program. If such advance knowledge is available (i.e., if audio files can be pre-analyzed), it becomes possible to match desired values of overall loudness and dynamics. We introduce tw...

Colour constancy as measured by least dissimilar matching.

Although asymmetric colour matching has been widely used in experiments on colour constancy, an exact colour match between objects lit by different chromatic lights is impossible to achieve. We used a modification of this technique, instructing our observers to establish the least dissimilar pair of differently illuminated coloured papers. The stimulus display consisted of two identical sets o...

Psychophysical Validation of a Proprioceptive Device by Cross-Modal Matching of Loudness

A large number of studies performed by S. S. Stevens, 1. C. Stevens and their collaborators have estimated the intensity of one sensory modality by way of another one related to the proprioceptive sensation of muscular force and limb position. As such, using a cross-modal matching procedure, it should be possible to associate a proprioceptive sensation with an auditory sensation (e.g. loudness,...

Loudness Determined by Power Summation