Effects of noise sensitivity and listening effort on perceptual ratings of background noise
- Previous research suggests that noise sensitivity is related to inefficient auditory processing that might increase the mental load of noise and affect noise evaluation. This assumption was tested in an experiment using a dual-task paradigm with a visual primary task and an auditory secondary task. Results showed that participants' noise sensitivity was positively correlated with mental effort. Furthermore, mental effort mediated the effect of noise sensitivity on loudness and unpleasantness ratings. The results thus support the idea that noise sensitivity is related to increased mental effort and difficulties in filtering auditory information and that situational factors should be considered.
| Author: | Markus von BergORCiD, Hendrik HimmeleinORCiD, Jochen SteffensORCiD |
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| Qualitätssicherung: | peer reviewed |
| open access: | Gold - Erstveröffentlichung mit Lizenzhinweis |
| Fachbereich/Einrichtung: | Hochschule Düsseldorf / Fachbereich - Medien |
| Hochschule Düsseldorf / Fachbereich - Medien / Sound and Vibration Engineering | |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Year of Completion: | 2024 |
| Language of Publication: | English |
| Publisher: | AIP Publishing |
| Parent Title (English): | JASA Express Letters |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Article Number: | 084401 |
| Page Number: | 7 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-45747 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0028201 |
| ISSN: | 2691-1191 |
| Tag: | DFG Publikationskosten; Geräuschempfindlichkeit; HSD Publikationsfonds; Höranstrengung listening effort; noise sensitivity |
| Funding institution: | DFG / zentraler HSD-Publikationsfonds |
| Corresponding Author: | Markus von Berg |
| Information on the Research Data: | Daten, die die Ergebnisse dieser wissenschaftlichen Publikation stützen, sind auf begründete Anfrage beim korrespondierenden Autoren erhältlich. |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
| Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/12 |
| Note: | Funding: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – 532148125 und durch den zentralen Publikationsfonds der Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. |
