Sensory pleasantness is unmeasurable in absolute values
Evidence
Because of these influences, which make it almost impossible to extract sensory pleasantness as a single elementary sensation, it is necessary to measure the dependence of this sensation in relative values, using the techniques of magnitude estimation with an anchor. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1363
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
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- Sensory pleasantness cannot be measured as a single elementary auditory sensation (similarity 0.94)
- Sensory pleasantness is computable from sharpness, roughness, tonality, and loudness. (similarity 0.84)
- Sensory pleasantness stays flat up to 20 sone then declines with loudness (similarity 0.83)
- Sensory pleasantness depends most on sharpness, then roughness and tonality. (similarity 0.83)
- Sensory pleasantness rises with tonality up to a relative value of about 0.4. (similarity 0.82)
- Relative magnitude judgments can be anchored into absolute psychophysical scales (similarity 0.82)
- A closed equation approximates sensory pleasantness from sharpness, roughness, tonality, and loudness (similarity 0.81)
- Sensory pleasantness rises with tonality only up to a ceiling. (similarity 0.81)
- Magnitude estimation of loudness yields only relative, not absolute, values. (similarity 0.80)
- Loudness is the sensation most directly tied to sound intensity (similarity 0.80)
- Sensory pleasantness was measured across tones, narrow-band noise, and band-pass noise. (similarity 0.80)
- Magnitude estimation with an anchor uses a fixed 70 dB car sound as reference. (similarity 0.79)
- Loudness reduces sensory pleasantness only beyond roughly 20 sone. (similarity 0.79)