On the validity of the loudness scale

SS Stevens - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1959 - asa.scitation.org
… ground in assuming that the loudness scale proposed by Stevens has any real meaning in
the experience of normal observers." Rather than base the loudness scale on the results of …

Advantages of the discriminability criterion for a loudness scale

WR Garner - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1958 - asa.scitation.org
… that the validity of a loudness scale based on the ratio scaling … truly reflect ratio properties of
the loudness scale. We cannot, … If a loudness scale is unique for the fractionation procedure, …

The subjective loudness scale

DW Robinson - Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 1957 - ingentaconnect.com
… incompatible with the aim of deducing the loudness scale, and would have been rejected by
… further aggravated when the deduced loudness scale units are reintroducedi. Interpretation …

A scale for the measurement of a psychological magnitude: loudness.

SS Stevens - Psychological Review, 1936 - psycnet.apa.org
… A final answer to the question of the relation of summated equal sense-distances to the
loudness scale obtained by the procedure outlined in the present paper cannot be given until …

A loudness scale for industrial noise measurements

BG Churcher - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1935 - asa.scitation.org
… the decibel scale, used as a loudness scale, does not yield numerical values proportional
to … into loudness values on a linear loudness scale. A survey has therefore been made of …

On the method of bisection and its relation to a loudness scale

EB Newman, J Volkmann, SS Stevens - The American Journal of …, 1937 - JSTOR
… good agreement to warrant the construction of a loudness scale (Churcher). l This scale flatly
… of this loudness scale to data obtained from the method of bisection? The loudness scale

A technique and a scale for loudness measurement

WR Garner - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1954 - asa.scitation.org
… If we use a fractionation technique to get data to construct a loudness scale, but assume
that the verbalized ratio may not be the correct one, it is clear that we need additional data to …

On the measurement of the loudness of speech

I Pollack - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1952 - asa.scitation.org
… The present paper describes these results and presents a loudness scale for speech based
… These data may be used in the derivation of a loudness scale for speech, provided it is …

Loudness, its definition, measurement and calculation

H Fletcher, WA Munson - Bell System Technical Journal, 1933 - Wiley Online Library
… In order to determine the form of the function representing this loudness scale and of the
other factors entering into the loudness formula, measurements were made of the loudness …

Voice level: Autophonic scale, perceived loudness, and effects of sidetone

HL Lane, AC Catania, SS Stevens - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 1961 - asa.scitation.org
… The degree to which the speaker lowers his voice when the sidetone is increased is also
predicted by the exponents governing the autophonic scale and the loudness scale. …