Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 8-23-2003

Journal / Book Title

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Abstract

Loudness recalibration, the effect of a relatively loud 2500-Hz recalibrating tone on the loudness of a relatively soft 2500-Hz target tone, was measured as a function of the interstimulus interval (ISI) between them. The loudness of the target tone, assessed by a 500-Hz comparison tone, declined when the ISI equaled or exceeded about 200 ms and leveled off at an ISI of about 700 ms. Notably, the target tone’s loudness did not change significantly at very short ISIs (<150 ms). The latter result is incompatible with the literature reporting loudness enhancement in this time window but is compatible with the suggestion made by Scharf, Buus, and Nieder [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 807–810 (2002)] that early measurements of enhancement were contaminated by the influence of the recalibrating tone on the comparison tone when the two shared the same frequency. In a second experiment, the frequency of the comparison tone was changed to 2500 Hz and the results of a loudness enhancement paradigm were successfully predicted from the time course of recalibration obtained in experiment 1.

DOI

DOI: 10.1121/1.1603768

Published Citation

Arieh, Yoav, and Lawrence E. Marks. "Time course of loudness recalibration: Implications for loudness enhancement." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 114, no. 3 (2003): 1550-1556.

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