Determining individual loudness scales from binary comparisons of loudness intervals.
A method is described in which individual loudness scales can be derived without resorting to numerical judgments on the part of the subject. Loudness scales constructed via this method differed significantly from subject to subject. Since a non-numerical scaling procedure was employed, the individual differences could not be attributed to biases in the way in which observers use numbers or numerical concepts to describe the loudnesses of tones.
D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D012107:Research Design