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Slippery context effect and critical bands.

L E Marks1, E Warner

  • 1John B. Pierce Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut 06519.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
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The slippery context effect in loudness perception is influenced by sound frequency differences. Larger frequency gaps between tones increase this effect, impacting how we judge loudness.

Area of Science:

  • Auditory perception
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Sensory processing

Background:

  • Loudness perception is influenced by stimulus context.
  • The slippery context effect describes how relative intensity levels affect loudness judgments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between frequency differences and the slippery context effect.
  • To explore the underlying mechanisms of loudness perception and contextual influence.

Main Methods:

  • Participants judged the loudness of tones varying in frequency and intensity.
  • The study manipulated the frequency difference between tones and their relative intensity levels.

Main Results:

  • The slippery context effect was minimal for small frequency differences (within critical bandwidth).

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  • Substantial slippery context effects were observed with larger frequency differences.
  • Contextual influence on loudness judgments is frequency-dependent.

    • Conclusions:

    • A filter-like attentional process may mediate loudness perception.
    • This process's weighting coefficients reflect absolute versus relative loudness components.
    • Frequency separation is crucial for contextual effects in auditory perception.