Sentence examples for intensity of sound from inspiring English sources

Biologists know this holds for the human perception of many stimuli, such as the intensity of sound, and have also verified it in many insects.

In Persson, Isolde's awareness of her power of sexual healing was implicit, reflected in a glowing intensity of sound and sustained right through to her ultimate transfiguration.

A spokesman for the Police Department said that officer training in the use of the devices addresses intensity of sound, duration and distance.

The intensity of sound and light is controlled by the vibrations of honeybees in an actual hive at Kew that is connected to the sculpture.

Citing the intensity of sound in the basses as a special characteristic, he said, "All efforts must be made to preserve the sound of this orchestra".

The intensity of sound is measured and reported in decibels (dB), a unit that expresses the relative magnitude of a sound on a logarithmic scale.

Participants touched abrasive paper, synchronizing their touch with changes in the intensity of sounds or with the onset of beeps (control condition), and judged the tactile roughness or length of the stimuli, using the magnitude estimation method.

As part of a standard evaluation, patients are given a series of tests: a tympanogram, to determine how the eardrums respond to air pressure; an assessment of the cochlea's response to sound; and a standard audiogram, to test the frequency and intensity of sounds that define the span of hearing.

Stumpf argues that those elements which fuse into the whole, for example quality and intensity of sounds in a melody, are not changed, but this relation of fusion establishes between these contents a narrower unity which is perceptible as a Gestalt.

Before each experimental block, the two loudspeakers were calibrated with a phonometer such that the intensity of sounds from both the NEAR and the FAR loudspeakers was identical at the subject's head (70 dB, 150 ms).

The outcome can be compared to the experimental results obtained with life animals, yet at high intensities of sound pressure.