Conveners
A15.06 Psychoacoustics of everyday sounds: S111
- Emmanuel Ponsot (STMS (Ircam-CNRS-SU))
- Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
A15.06 Psychoacoustics of everyday sounds: P489
- Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
- Emmanuel Ponsot (STMS (Ircam-CNRS-SU))
A15.06 Psychoacoustics of everyday sounds: S359
- Emmanuel Ponsot (STMS (Ircam-CNRS-SU))
- Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
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Valtteri Hongisto (Turku University of Applied Sciences)10/09/2026, 14:20A15 Psychoacoustics
Many kinds of sources are impulsive, e.g., shooting ranges, logistic centres, playing fields, and construction sites. Many guidelines require an adjustment (penalty, sanction) to be applied, if noise is impulsive. Penalty is usually a constant value, k [dB], that is added to the measured sound level, LAeq [dB]. Adjusted value, LAeq+k, should describe noise annoyance better than LAeq alone....
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Valtteri Hongisto (Turku University of Applied Sciences)10/09/2026, 14:40A15 Psychoacoustics
Most guidelines involve a penalty procedure, if noise contains features which increase noise annoyance, such as impulsive or tonal components. In most guidelines, the penalty is a constant, k [dB], that is added to the measured sound level, LAeq [dB]. The adjusted sound level, LAeq+k, is expected to describe noise annoyance better than LAeq alone. However, soundscapes, both indoors and...
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Matthieu Fraticelli (Laboratoire des Systรจmes Perceptifs, ENS-PSL)10/09/2026, 15:00A15 Psychoacoustics
Watercourses are dynamic systems whose acoustic manifestations vary as a function of discharge, flow velocity, and hydrogeomorphological structure. Characterizing how such acoustic manifestations are perceived is essential for understanding the capacity of human beings to monitor crucial geophysical information in their close environment with their auditory system. Building on prior work...
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Christoph Reuter (Universitรคt Wien)10/09/2026, 15:00A15 Psychoacoustics
- Background: Joint cracking is caused by tribonucleation, the formation and implosion of gas bubbles in synovial fluid. Many individuals find the associated sound pleasant and report a stress-reducing effect. | - Research Questions: Which joints produce the most pleasant sensations and sounds? And which audio features account for this impression? | - Method: The cracking sounds of 224...
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Benedikt Bugl (OTH Regensburg)10/09/2026, 15:00A15 Psychoacoustics
While dissonance is traditionally studied in musicalcontexts using rather stationary tonal structures, technicalsounds require a perceptual perspective in whichdissonance may also be assessed for time-varying spectralcontent.This study investigates the perception of dissonanceand unpleasantness in synthetic acceleration and decelerationsounds typical for electric vehicle interiornoise. A...
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Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)10/09/2026, 15:20A15 Psychoacoustics
For a pedestrian standing at the curb and intending to cross the road, the dynamic spatial sound field generated by an approaching vehicle provides various cues to its arrival time (time-to-collision, TTC). The sound intensity at the listener position increases with decreasing vehicle distance. The azimuthal position of the vehicle and the angular separation of the vehicle sound sources (e.g.,...
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Johannes Zaar (Eriksholm Research Centre)10/09/2026, 15:40A15 Psychoacoustics
Many natural sounds contain modulation across both the temporal and spectral dimensions. The ability of human listeners to detect such spectro-temporal modulations (STM) has often been assessed using stimuli consisting of a STM pattern (moving ripples) imposed on a carrier signal, measuring the listenersโ detection threshold in terms of the modulation depth. The present study systematically...
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Andrรฉ Fiebig (TU Berlin, Department of Engineering Acoustics)10/09/2026, 16:00A15 Psychoacoustics
There is an increasing number of sound sources in our environment emitting sounds containing tonal components. Their perception is commonly assessed bymeasuring the magnitude of tonal content, also known as the tonality of the sound. While several studies investigated the impact of the level of tonal content relative to the level of the noise background, little is known about the effect of the...
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Christian Lorenzi (Ecole normale supรฉrieure, CNRS)10/09/2026, 16:40A15 Psychoacoustics
Shafiro and Gygi (2004) โ who pioneered psychoacoustic research on environmental sounds โ promoted a rigorous methodology for selecting appropriate stimuli to study the auditory perception of this category of sounds by human listeners. Here we propose a theoretical rationale to complement this methodology, based on an ecological approach grounded in recent findings concerning the perception of...
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Robin Wendling (LSP, Ecole normale supรฉrieure, ENS PSL)10/09/2026, 17:00A15 Psychoacoustics
Preliminary findings indicate that cochlear hearing loss impairs discrimination of natural soundscapes according to habitat, time of day, and season.This psychophysical study investigates how cochlear damage affects natural soundscape perception and the influence of ecological factors (habitat, time of day, precipitation level). Normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) listeners...
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Kevin de Haas (Medizinische Physik, Carl von Ossietzky Universitรคt Oldenburg)10/09/2026, 17:20A15 Psychoacoustics
Perception of everyday sounds typically involves motion of the source and receiver, sound reflections, diffraction, and reverberation. Contrasting classical psychoacoustics with static headphone rendering of simplified stimuli, hearing research in such realistic conditions requires virtual acoustics methods. liveRAZR is a low-latency interactive virtual environment and room acoustics simulator...
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Joseph Sollini (University of Nottingham)10/09/2026, 17:40A15 Psychoacoustics
Recognition of familiar individuals relies on information from multiple sensory-modalities, including faces and voices. Existing person-recognition frameworks propose that face and voice processing initially occur through separate modality-specific pathways before converging at a modality-independent identity stage. While cross-modal identity processing is known to facilitate person...
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Roalt Aalmoes (Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR)10/09/2026, 18:00A15 Psychoacoustics
Research on perceived noise annoyance seeks to identify conditions into circumstances where certain sound events elicit adverse psychological or physiological effects to those exposed. Within this research field two primary methodologies are often applied: laboratory-based studies, utilising sound laboratories or noise simulators to control and manipulate sound exposure, and field studies,...
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