Effects of Context on the Subjective Equation of Auditory and Visual Intensities
Abstract
Thirty-six subjects were instructed to equate the loudness of a pure tone with the brightness of an illuminated field. Eighteen of the subjects had been given brief preliminary experience with tones of low intensity; the remaining 18, with tones of high intensity. A significant and substantial effect upon equation was demonstrated.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- November 1961
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.134.3490.1623
- Bibcode:
- 1961Sci...134.1623S