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Chuck Watson and I did a study of "sound
quality" a few years ago that included "pleasantness" and 19
other subjective evaluations of 145 environmental sounds. We used a
semantic differential technique and examined the relations between acoustic
variables and rating judgments for different sound categories. We found
that the acoustic correlates of pleasantness depended on the identity of the
source. This is reminiscent of some earlier work showing that the
annoyance level of a noise depends on attitudes towards the source of the
noise. Here's the reference: Kidd, G. R., & Watson, C. S. (2003). The
perceptual dimensionality of environmental sounds. Noise Control
Engineering Journal, 51, 216-231. - Gary ------------------------------------------------------ Gary R. Kidd Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 |