聴覚の特性と音環境の快適性(快適性をめぐって-温度・香り・音の環境心理学-,フォーラム)

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The aim of the forum was to pursue the significance of examining the relation between sensation, perception and emotion evoked by stimuli and to find aspect of environmental psychology. In this paper the evaluation of sound environment was discussed from the following viewpoints. (1) The relation between physical properties and perception of sounds was introduced taking the characteristics of hearing into consideration. (2) Timbre is a key attribute of hearing to identify sound source. The recognition, identification and timbre of sounds including the situation were discussed in relation to the evaluation of sound environment. (3) It is one of the main topics of environmental psychology to solve noise problems and create comfortable sound environment. This topic was discussed in relation to the loudness of level-fluctuating noise based on noise criteria and noise quality. (4) Perception, cognition and emotion must be measured objectively in order to predict and improve the sound environment in daily life situation. Though there are many factors difficult to control in the evaluation of actual environment, it is an important and interesting topic in environmental psychology to examine the ecological validity in laboratory experiments.