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. 1966 Mar;9(2):135–142. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1966.9-135

Auditory reaction time and the derivation of equal loudness contours for the monkey1

William C Stebbins
PMCID: PMC1338165  PMID: 4955967

Abstract

Monkeys were trained to release a telegraph key at the onset of a pure tone. Latency of the response was measured over a 70-db range of sound pressure (re 0.0002 dyn/cm2) at six frequencies (250 to 15,000 cps). Latency was found to be an inverse exponential function of intensity at all frequencies. Equal loudness was inferred from the equal latency contours which were constructed from the latency-intensity functions at each frequency. These data indicate peak auditory sensitivity for the monkey near 1000 cps. At the frequencies above and below 1000 cps consistently more sound energy was required for equal latency.

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