TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Contextual processing of multidimensional and unidimensional auditory stimuli
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance
A1  - Marks, L. E.
SP  - 227
EP  - 249
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
N2  - Stimulus context (the distribution of stimulus values) can strongly affect both perception and judgment. In 14 experiments, the method of magnitude estimation revealed 2 fundamentally different kinds of context effect in loudness. An assimilative effect dominated when stimuli varied unidimensionally (in intensity only). But a contrasting, or adaptation-like, effect dominated when stimuli varied multidimensionally (in frequency and intensity). In Experiment 15, direct loudness comparison revealed a potent, adaptational process specific to the signal frequency. Taken together, these and other results are compatible with the view that loudness perception and judgment reflect the net outcome of 2 different contextual processes: a relatively early (though probably not peripheral) process of perceptual adaptation and a later process of response-dependent assimilation.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-1523
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -