Monitoring and Analysis of Influence of Different Kinds of Sound on Physio Psychological Response of Humans

This paper describes how considerable effort has been directed toward investigating the possible effects of noise on task and cognitive performance in recent years. Researchers have proven that noise affects human significantly both physically and psychologically. It is well accepted in the scientific community that exposure to high-intensity noise in community or work settings is often harmful to the health and behavior of large segments of the exposed populations. Job and task performance can also be greatly affected by the presence of loud noise. This paper reports the outcomes of a study that was aimed to experimentally evaluate the effects of different kinds of sounds on task performance and the psychological response. Although previous studies touched upon many aspects of noise and task performance, our experiment was specifically designed to investigate the impact of different types of sounds on testing performance of different types of cognitive tasks. It is of interest to determine the situations when the source of distraction used in this study appears to be annoying and the same source appears to be pleasing and therefore negatively or positively affect performance. Most of the research work has shown adverse effects of loud noise on performance. However, this research shows that performance varies with different types of sounds and different tasks thus our study in addition to psychophysiological noise effects, evaluates positive as well as negative effect on task performance with different sounds at the same loudness.

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Noise Control Engineering

  Iowa State University, 210 Marston Hall
  Ames, IA  United States  50011-2153

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Gandhi, N
  • Kumar, D K
• Conference:
  • Noise-Con 04. The 2004 National Conference on Noise Control Engineering
  • Location: Baltimore Maryland, United States
  • Date: 2004-7-12 to 2004-7-14
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 676-683
• Monograph Title: Noise-Con 04. The 2004 National Conference on Noise Control Engineering

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Noise; Noise control; Noise sources; Psychology; Sound; Sound; Sound level; Sound level meters; Sound transmission
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01054314
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jul 26 2007 9:55AM