Long-term exposure to noise impairs cortical sound processing and attention control

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 875-881

  Kujala, Teija ^a,b   Shtyrov, Yury ^a,c   Winkler, Istvan ^a,d   Saher, Marieke ^a   Tervaniemi, Mari ^a,b,e   Sallinen, Mikael ^f   Teder Sälejärvi, Wolfgang ^g   Alho, Kimmo ^a   Reinikainen, Kalevi ^a   Näätänen, Risto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Distractibility; Long term effects of noise; Mismatch negativity; N2b; Sound discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NOISE; NOISE POLLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 19944389860     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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