Limen (Noun)
Meaning
The smallest detectable sensation.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The sound engineer struggled to isolate the noise in the audio sample as it fell below the limen for the listener.
- Psychophysicists estimate that a variation in just one percentage point can often reach or fall just short of an average limen in marketing demographics.
- Once in optimal hearing range and posture, a blindfolded participant demonstrated limen threshold ability to accurately identify the number of fingers held on the opposite side of the curtain.
- During these experiments the researchers established the typical lower limen magnitudes for this subject population were found across all modalities tested in the final regression analysis.
- Audio engineers would calculate threshold limen metrics of participant listeners in different settings to evaluate perceived differences in various acoustic dampening materials.