Binaural summation after learning psychophysical functions for loudness |
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Authors: | Lawrence E Marks Eugene Galanter John C Baird |
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Institution: | 1. John B. Pierce Pierce Laboratory, 290 Congress Avenue, 06519, New Haven, CT 2. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 3. Columbia University, New York, New York 4. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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Abstract: | Do response-related processes affect perceptual processes? Sometimes they may: Algom and Marks (1990) produced different loudness exponents by manipulating stimulus range, and thereby also modified the rules of loudness summation determined by magnitude scaling. The present study manipulated exponents by having a dozen subjects learn prescribed power functions with exponents of 0.3, 0.6, or 1.2 (re sound pressure). Subjects gave magnitude estimates of the loudness of binaural signals during training, and of monaural and binaural signals after training. During training, subjects’ responses followed the nominal functions reasonably well. Immediately following training, subjects applied the numeric response scales uniformly to binaural and monaural signals alike; the implicit monaural-binaural loudness matches, and thus the basic rules underlying binaural summation, were unaffected by the exponent learned. Comparison of these results with those of Algom and Marks leads us to conclude that changing stimulus range likely influences underlying perceptual events, whereas “calibrating” a loudness scale through pretraining leaves the perceptual processes unaffected. |
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