Mary Florentine

Loudness - Springer Handbook of Auditory Research Mary Florentine 2011 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: The topic of loudness is of considerable concern both in and outside of research laboratories. Most people have developed an opinion about some aspect of loudness, and many complain about the loudness of background sounds in their daily environments and their impacts on quality of life. Moreover, such sounds interfere with the ability to hear useful sounds, and such masking can be especially problematic for people with hearing losses, children, older adults, and non-native speakers of a language. At the same time, not all loud sounds are undesirable. Some loud sounds are important for human well-being, such as warning signals, whereas other loud sounds, such as music, can be pleasurable. In fact, loudness is essential for enjoying the dynamics of music. Thus, loudness is a pervasive and complex issue, and one that needs to be examined from a wide range of perspectives, and that is the purpose of this volume. Research in loudness has been performed in many countries, and this volume is an international endeavor with authors from Europe, Japan, and the United States, making the volume an attempt to provide a global network of information about loudness. The editors are very pleased to be able to bring together information on many aspects of loudness in this one volume, as well as to highlight approaches from many different perspectives."Table of Contents: 1. Loudness / Mary Florentine -- 2. Measurement of Loudness, Part I: Methods, Problems, and Pitfalls / Lawrence E. Marks, Mary Florentine -- 3. Measurement of Loudness, Part II: Context Effects / Yoav Arieh, Lawrence E. Marks -- 4. Correlates of Loudness / Michael J. Epstein -- 5. Loudness in the Laboratory, Part I: Steady-State Sounds / Walt Jesteadt, Lori J. Leibold -- 6. Loudness in the Laboratory, Part II: Non-Steady-State Sounds / Sonoko Kuwano, Seiichiro Namba -- 7. Binaural Loudness / Ville Pekka Sivonen, Wolfgang Ellermeier -- 8. Loudness in Daily Environments / Hugo Fastl, Mary Florentine -- 9. Loudness and Hearing Loss / Karolina Smeds, Arne Leijon -- 10. Models of Loudness / Jeremy Marozeau -- Index.

Contributor Bio:  Popper, Arthur N Arthur N. Popper is Professor in the Department of Biology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. Richard R. Fay is Director of the Parmly Hearing Institute and Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago. Contributor Bio:  Fay, Richard R Fay is Director of the Parmly Hearing Institute and Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago.