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Specific Loudness

Figure 7.7 shows the specific loudness computed from the excitation pattern of Fig.7.5. As mentioned above, it is a compressive nonlinearity that depends on level and also frequency.

Figure 7.7: Specific loudness computed from the excitation pattern each time step.
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