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Stewart, Neil and Chater, Nick (2003) No unified scales for perceptual magnitudes: Evidence from loudness. In: 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society, Boston, MA, JUL 31-AUG 02, 2003. Published in: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, Pts 1 and 2 pp. 1116-1121. ISBN 0-8058-4991-2.
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Abstract
In this article we consider whether perceptual magnitudes are represents on unified underlying scales. We exploit the ubiquitous sequential effects seen m judgments concerning the attributes of simple perceptual stimuli. Participants made judgments about the intensity of sinusoidal tones and white noise hisses. On each trial in Experiment 1, participants heard a tone and a hiss and judged which was the louder. The loudness of a stimulus was assimilated much more towards a stimulus of the same type on the previous trial, compared to a stimulus of the other type. In Experiment 2, the effect of the stimulus on the previous trial in an absolute identification of loudness task was larger when previous and current stimuli were of the same type. The attenuation of sequential effects by a switch of stimulus types suggests that the loudness of tones is not represented in the same way as the loudness of hisses. We argue that these sequential effects are indicative of the relativity of perceptual judgment.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (UNSPECIFIED) | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, Pts 1 and 2 | ||||
| Publisher: | LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL | ||||
| ISBN: | 0-8058-4991-2 | ||||
| Editor: | Alterman, R and Kirsh, D | ||||
| Official Date: | 2003 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1116-1121 | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Title of Event: | 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society | ||||
| Location of Event: | Boston, MA | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | JUL 31-AUG 02, 2003 |
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