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Original Article

Effect of Signal Duration on Categorical Loudness Scaling in Normal and in Hearing-impaired Listeners

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Pages 196-201 | Received 30 Jul 1998, Accepted 05 Oct 1998, Published online: 07 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

The present study sought to determine whether the duration of white-noise bursts affects their loudness category rating in the same way for hearing-impaired as for normally-hearing subjects. Twelve normally-hearing and 12 hearing-impaired subjects took part. Categorical loudness growth functions were obtained for 16.25 ms, 32.5 ms, 75 ms, 150 ms and 300 ms white noise bursts. Temporal integration of loudness was defined as the intensity difference needed for stimuli of different durations to result in identical category ratings. In normally-hearing subjects, temporal integration of loudness occurred mainly with the short-duration (16.25 ms and 32.5 ms) stimuli, whereas it was found with almost every stimulus duration in hearing-impaired subjects. In other words, temporal integration of loudness between 16.25 ms and 300 ms stimulus duration was greater in hearing-impaired listeners and there was a difference between normal and hearing-impaired subjects regarding change in loudness perception with stimulus duration. Consequently, the use of fixed-duration stimuli hinders loudness normalization.

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