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1 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL ACOUSTICS RESULTS OF THE SIXTH OLDENBURG SYMPOSIUM ON PSYCHOLOGICAL ACOUSTICS EDITED BY AUGUST SCHICK Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universitat Oldenburg 1993

2 -5- Contents August Schick Preface 13 Physiological processes and otoacoustic emissions Hendrikus Duifhuis Cochlear micromechanics 19 Bertram Scharf On the role of the olivocochlear bundle in hearing 35 Alf Axelsson & Mart Anari Hyperacusis 51 Glenis R. Long Perceptual consequences of otoacoustic emissions 59 Stefan Uppenkamp, Joachim Neumann & Birger Kollmeier Narrowband stimulation of otoacoustic emissions 81

3 Joachim Neumann, Stefan Uppenkamp & Birger Kollmeier Chirpsignals with low peakfactors and freely selectable power spectra 89 Models of auditory perception Marie-Claire Botte & Carolyn Drake The processing of successive time intervals in auditory sequences,155 Seiichiro Namba, Sonoko Kuwano, Teruo Yamasaki & Keiko Nishiyama Dynamic characteristics of hearing and the impression of legato in music performance 171 Adele Diederich The timing model and the conjoint Weber law 99 Torsten Dau & Dirk PUschel A quantitative model of the effective signal processing in the auditory system 107 Stefan MVmkner & Dirk PUschel A psychoacoustical model for the perception of non-stationary sounds 121 Yoito Suzuki & Toshio Sone Loudness and roughness Frequency characteristics of loudness perception Principles and applications 193 Birgitte Gabriel, Birger Kollmeier & Volker Mellert Influence of various measurement procedures on the equal-loudness contours 223 Temporal Discrimination Brian C. J. Moore Temporal resolution in normal and impaired hearing..137 Stefan Launer, Volker Hohmann & Birger Kollmeier Categorical loudness summation - experiments and models 233 Peter Daniel & Reinhard Weber Calculating psychoacoustical roughness 251

4 NiekJ. Versfeld Profile Analysis Profile-analysis models applied to two-tone complexes 269 Hedwig Gockel & Hans Colonius Discrimination of auditory profile stimuli roved in frequency 287 Wolf Heine, Rainer Guski & John B. Pittenger Perceiving numbers of steel balls by audition 361 Thomas Schinauer, Andreas Hellmann & Rainer Hdger Dynamic acoustical stimulation affects selfmotion perception 373 Dietrich Parlitz & Hans Colonius Effects of visual Stimulation on Auditory Detection 387 Lawrence D. Rosenblum Acoustical orientation Acoustical information for controlled collisions 303 Andreas Hellmann Auditory Perception of Impending Collisions 323 Rainer Hdger Acoustic texture in distance perception 337 Wolf Heine & Rainer Guski Using auditory information for active contact with sound sources moving rectilinearly with respect to a listener 349 Complex sound attributes Andres Sander, Andreas Eilemann & Birger Kollmeier On the separation of complex tones 399 Andreas Eilemann, Gen Jacobi & Andres Sander Comodulation masking release for deterministic and non-deterministic signals 411 Ralf Fassel & Dirk Puschel Modulation detection and masking using deterministic and random maskers 419

5 Sound evaluation and annoyance Dieter Gottlob & Ralf Kurer Activities of the federal environmental agency on noise abatement 433 David M. Green A theory of community annoyance created by noise exposure 459 S. Martin Taylor Transportation noise annoyance Studies of the McMaster Research Group 473 Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp Judging noise in the laboratory. An analysis based on a new method 487 Hugo Fasti Application of psychoacoustical parameters in noise control 505 Sonoko Kuwano, Seiichiro Namba, Tadasu Hato, Michinao Matui, Kayo Miura AHiroshi Imai Psychological evaluation of noise in passenger cars: Analysis in different groups of subjects in nationality, age and gender.521 Markus Bodden The importance of binaural hearing for noise validation.537 Speech perception lnga Holube & Birger Kollmeier A perception model to predict speech intelligibility in impaired listeners using psychoacoustical parameters 557 Kathrin Kliem & Birger Kollmeier Abisyllabic rhyme test in German 567 Noise and cognitive performance Dylan Jones & Billy Macken Irrelevant speech and cognition.585 Horst Kilcher & Jurgen Hellbruck The irrelevant speech effect.605 Wolfgang Schdnpflug Continous noise, discontinous noise and performance..615

6 p a e t w p b i f t -12- Staffan Hygge Classroom experiments on the effects of noise on long term recall and recognition in children aged years 627 Pierre Salome A Hilene Otzenberger Sleepinertia, noise and cognitive performance 643 Author Index 657 Subject Index 671 p a

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