Sound pressure levels in discotheques and during training sessions of music students we re measured and analysed. Effects of exposure in the form of permanent and temporary threshold shifts we re determined in the samples of young discotheque attenders and in music students and musicians. The consequences of the threshold shifts in the perception of pitch, loudness, and time are discussed.
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