Annoyance ratings can be predicted from measurable hearing sensations.
Evidence
With respect to sound quality evaluation, in addition to acoustic features of sounds in particular aesthetic and/or cognitive effects may play an essential part. Therefore, in laboratory situations not always all factors contributing to the annoyance or the pleasantness of sounds can be assessed. However, the psychoacoustic elements of annoying sounds can be described by a combination of hearing sensations called psychoacoustic annoyance. More specifically, psychoacoustic annoyance (PA) can quantitatively describe annoyance ratings obtained in psychoacoustic experiments. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1824
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Introduces ‘psychoacoustic annoyance’ (PA) as the quantitative combination of hearing sensations that predicts subjective annoyance ratings.
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