Citation

Menzel D, Fastl H, Graf R, Hellbrück J. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2008; 123(5): 2477-2479.

Affiliation

Arbeitsgruppe Technische Akustik, MMK, Technische Universität München, München, Germany. menzel@tum.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, American Institute of Physics)

DOI

10.1121/1.2890747

PMID

18529164

Abstract

This experiment investigates the effect of images of differently colored sports cars on the loudness of a simultaneously perceived car sound. Still images of a sports car, colored in red, light green, blue, and dark green, were displayed to subjects during a magnitude estimation task. The sound of an accelerating sports car was used as a stimulus. Statistical analysis suggests that the color of the visual stimulus may have a small influence on loudness judgments. The observed loudness differences are generally equivalent to a change in sound level of about 1 dB, with maximum individual differences of up to 3 dB.

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