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Effect of Direction on Loudness in Individual Binaural Synthesis

The effect of sound incidence angle on loudness is investigated in this study using binaural synthesis. Individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) and headphone equalization are used to present narrow-band noises from different directions to listeners. Their task is to match the loudness of these stimuli in an adaptive procedure to a reference noise in front of the listeners. The results are compared to an earlier investigation with the same experimental design in a real sound field. Based on the results the role of the individual HRTFs in loudness judgments is inspected, and finally, binaural loudness summation of signals presented to the two ears is examined.

Authors: Ellermeier, Wolfgang; Minnaar, Pauli; Sivonen, Ville
Affiliation: Aalborg University
AES Convention:118 (May 2005) Paper Number:6512 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Psychoacoustics, Perception, Listening Tests

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