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. 2020 Jan 16;11:324. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-14163-5

Fig. 1. Sensitivity to sound level differences in human listeners improves with decreasing auditory contrast.

Fig. 1

a Spectrogram illustrating two-alternative forced-choice sound level discrimination task in different contrast environments (dynamic random chords) for human listeners. Participants were instructed to judge whether the target sound (100 ms broadband noise) was “quieter” or “louder” than the reference sound (also 100 ms broadband noise). b Examples of psychometric functions from one participant for sound level discrimination in low- (10 dB, blue) and high- (30 dB, red) contrast conditions. c Changes in just noticeable difference (JND, difference in dB between 25% and 75% points on psychometric curve) across participants. Source data for c are provided as a Source Data file.