Implications of human performance and perception under tonal noise conditions on indoor noise criteria

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 218-226

  Ryherd, Erica E ^a,b   Wang, Lily M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; THEOREM PROVING;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); BACKGROUND NOISES; BUILDING INDUSTRY(CO); CRITERIA SYSTEMS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; INDOOR NOISE; MARK II; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE CRITERIA; PERFORMANCE SCORES; ROOM CRITERIA; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL (SPL); SPECTRAL QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCES; TIME-VARYING; TONAL NOISE;

ACOUSTICS;

ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BUILDING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE;

EID: 47649125347     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2932075     Document Type: Article

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