Four triggering factors in loudness adaptation.
A factor analysis was used to determine whether induced loudness adaptation (Botte, Canevet, & Scharf, 1982; Scharf, 1983) and adaptation measured by Hood's (1950) classic Simultaneous Dichotic Loudness Balance technique (SDLB) would cluster on the same factors. The two phenomena did not cluster on the same factors; thus, induced adaptation cannot replace SDLB adaptation. Four independent factors that trigger auditory adaptation were identified in the factor analysis.
Weiler
E M
EM
Department of Communication Science & Disorders, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221.
Gold
L S
LS
Sandman
D E
DE
Warm
J S
JS
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008297:Male; D011571:Psychoacoustics