@article{ref1,
title="Simultaneous dichotic loudness balance (SDLB): why loudness "fatigues" with two ears but not with one",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2019",
author="Nizami, Lance",
volume="81",
number="5",
pages="1624-1653",
abstract="In the laboratory method called simultaneous dichotic loudness balance (SDLB), the contribution-to-loudness that arises from the listener's continually exposed &quot;fatiguing&quot; ear is required to be matched (balanced) by the listener, by adjusting the intensity of a noncontinuous stimulus at the other (&quot;comparison&quot;) ear. The latter intensity usually declines, allegedly indicating &quot;fatigue&quot; of the contribution-to-loudness from the &quot;fatiguing&quot; ear. However, no &quot;fatigue&quot; is found when one ear alone (with the other ear in quiet) experiences a continuous well-suprathreshold stimulus. This is a quandary that remains unresolved. The present article offers a resolution, through a novel conceptual model in which any ear experiencing stimuli acts through a well-characterized physiological structure, the olivocochlear bundle, to &quot;turn down the volume&quot; at the opposite ear. The model explains how &quot;fatigue&quot; varies in eight different SDLB conditions, some having several subconditions. Altogether, the model demonstrates that &quot;fatigue&quot; is an artifact of SDLB itself.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/s13414-019-01694-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01694-8"
}