Each listener shows a stable, idiosyncratic weighting of frequency bands

Evidence

Perturbation analysis has become a popular approach in psychoacoustic research to measure how listeners hear out a target sound in background noise (cf. Berg 1990 ; Lutfi 1995 ; Richards 2002 ). Studies using this paradigm show listeners to have highly replicable, individualistic patterns of decision weights on frequencies affecting their ability to hear out specific targets in noise—what has been referred to as individual listening styles (Doherty and Lutfi 1996 ; Lutfi and Liu 2007 ; Jesteadt et al. 2014 ; Alexander and Lutfi 2004 ). Unfortunately this paradigm is extremely time-consuming, rendering it ineffective for clinical use. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5757

Studies using this paradigm show listeners to have highly replicable, individualistic patterns of decision weights on frequencies affecting their ability to hear out specific targets in noise—what has been referred to as individual listening styles (Doherty and Lutfi 1996 ; Lutfi and Liu 2007 ; Jesteadt et al. 2014 ; Alexander and Lutfi 2004 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5758

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5757; Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5758
• XREF: connects to: Frequency importance functions weight speech audibility by band significance; Highly trained listeners can repeat subjective judgments with remarkable consistency; Equal-loudness contours vary greatly across individual listeners

Broader Connections

• Equal-loudness contours vary greatly across individual listeners #corroborates (0.80)
• Highly trained listeners can repeat subjective judgments with remarkable consistency #qualifies (0.75)
• Frequency importance functions weight speech audibility by band significance #expands (0.72)