A method to predict psychological response of noisiness to an acoustical stimulus with a prominent frequency component

This study experimentally evaluates a prediction method for the psychological response of the noisiness to a complex noise that includes a pure tone component. This paper first proposes the new psychological response prediction method, which is calculated by summing the point of subjective equality of the complex noise components as energy. The effectiveness of the proposed method is then examined using data obtained from indoor psychological experiments.