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Temporal Summation of Loudness: An Analysis
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A quantitative psychophysiological theory is developed for loudness level and loudness as a function of stimulus duration that shows how this can be achieved in spite of a nonlinear relationship between sound intensity and neural excitation.Abstract:
A quantitative psychophysiological theory is developed for loudness level and loudness as a function of stimulus duration. It is based on the psychophysical as well as neurophysiological evidence that the apparent temporal summation of acoustic energy is a result of neural summation at a high level of the auditory system. The theory shows how this can be achieved in spite of a nonlinear relationship between sound intensity and neural excitation. The temporal decay of neural firing preceding the final stage of temporal summation seems to be responsible for overcoming the nonlinearity.read more
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Discharge Patterns of Single Fibers in the Cat's Auditory Nerve
TL;DR: In this paper, the discharge patterns of single fibers in cat auditory nerve in response to controlled acoustic stimuli were investigated and shown to be similar to those of human auditory nerve, and they were shown to respond to controlled stimuli.
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The Measurement of Loudness
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the available evidence on the relation between loudness and stimulus intensity, and suggested that for the typical listener the loudness L of a 1000-cycle tone can be approximated by a power function of intensity I, of which the exponent is log102.