EFFECTS OF AIRCRAFT NOISE ON THE MENTAL WISH OF PUPILS

In order to examine the effects of aircraft noise on the mentality of growing children, a simple search test and an adding test were applied to 1144 elementary school pupils who live around an airport, and in a quiet area, under the conditions of no stimulus sound, and jet noise stimulus 90 plus/minus 5 dB (A) respectively. The result was that children from relatively noisy living areas tended, when performing tests, to show occasional short periods in which they produced substantially less than their own average rate of work. A similar difference did not appear when working in noisy rather than quiet conditions, and it was considered to be something chronic about the children themselves. These results were independent of the sex of the subjects and the feelings of the subjects about aircraft noise.

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• Authors:
  • Ando, Y
  • Nakane, Y
  • Egawa, J
• Publication Date: 1975-12-22

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 683-691
• Serial:
  • Journal of Sound and Vibration
  • Volume: 43
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0022-460X
  • EISSN: 1095-8568
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0022460X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft noise; Airport noise; Communities; Environmental impact analysis; Environmental impacts; Performance; School children; Sound level
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155929
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM