Open-plan offices (OPOs) have been around for more than half a century now, chronicling
the vicissitudes of workplace topography amongst other factors. This paper addresses one …

Disturbing factors like reverberation or ambient noise can impair speech recognition and
raise the listening effort needed for successful communication in daily life. Situations with …

Individual loudness perception can be assessed using categorical loudness scaling (CLS).
The procedure does not require any training and is frequently used in clinics. The goal of …

In contrast to the well-known benefits for speech intelligibility, the advantage afforded by
binaural stimulus presentation for reducing listening effort has not been thoroughly …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess perceived listening effort and speech
intelligibility in reverberant and noisy conditions for hearing-impaired listeners for conditions …

Listeners can judge the overall loudness of time-varying sounds quite easily, ie, assign a
single value that represents the loudness of the entire sound. This holds even if the duration …

Tones rising in intensity over a few seconds are perceived as louder than symmetrical tones
falling in intensity. However, the causes for such perceptual asymmetry, as well as its …

A model for the loudness of time-varying sounds [Glasberg and Moore (2012). J. Audio. Eng.
Soc. 50, 331–342] was assessed for its ability to predict the loudness of sentences that were …

Many studies have investigated the loudness of stationary sounds, and different loudness
models were derived from these data (eg, Zwicker et al., 1957; Moore and Glasberg, 1997; …

Level differences at equal loudness between band-pass noise and pure tones with a
frequency equal to the center frequency of the noise were measured in normal-hearing …