Collins A A, Gescheider G A
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 13323.
J Acoust Soc Am. 1989 May;85(5):2012-21. doi: 10.1121/1.397854.
Twelve adults and 11 children (age range 4-7 years) performed absolute magnitude estimation of the apparent lengths of lines and the loudnesses of 1000-Hz tones as well as cross-modality matching between loudness and apparent line length. Consistent with the notion that children and adults have similar impressions of loudness, there were no major differences between the absolute magnitude estimation (AME) and cross-modality matching (CMM) data of the adults and children. A direct comparison between the exponents for loudness by AME and CMM was made when a correction factor was employed to eliminate the effects of idiosyncratic use of numbers from the AME exponents. The results support the hypothesis that, with proper instructions, both children and adults can judge stimuli on an absolute scale. Specifically, for 9 out of 12 adults and 9 out of 11 children, lines and tones assigned the same number in absolute magnitude estimation were judged to be subjectively equal in cross-modality matching.
12名成年人和11名儿童（年龄在4至7岁之间）对线条的视在长度和1000赫兹纯音的响度进行了绝对大小估计，以及响度与视在线条长度之间的跨模态匹配。与儿童和成年人对响度有相似印象的观点一致，成年人与儿童的绝对大小估计（AME）和跨模态匹配（CMM）数据没有重大差异。当采用校正因子消除AME指数中数字特殊使用的影响时，对AME和CMM的响度指数进行了直接比较。结果支持这样的假设，即通过适当的指导，儿童和成年人都可以在绝对尺度上判断刺激。具体而言，在12名成年人中有9名，11名儿童中有9名，在绝对大小估计中被赋予相同数字的线条和纯音在跨模态匹配中被判断为主观相等。
