Subject: Sensitivity to increments and decrements From: Christian Kaernbach <auditorymail@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:42:43 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear List, Is there anything known about the existence of differences in the sensitivity to intensity increments versus to intensity decrements? Laurent Demany pointed me to a paper by Sinnott et al. (1985) who found no such difference in humans, while they found an advantage for increments in monkeys: Sinnott, J. M., Petersen M. R., Hopp, S. L. (1985). Frequency and intensity discrimination in humans and monkeys. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 78, 1977-1985. Is this finding (as to the symmetry of human increment / decrement sensitivity) unchallenged? Best regards, Chris -- Prof. Dr. Christian Kaernbach Allgemeine Psychologie Institut für Psychologie Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Olshausenstr. 62 D-24098 Kiel Germany www.kaernbach.de