Impairing effects of noise in high and low noise sensitive persons working on different mental tasks

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 779-785

  Sandrock, Stephan ^a   Schütte, Martin ^b   Griefahn, Barbara ^b  

^a Institut fuer angewandte Arbeitswissenschaft   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Discriminant analysis; Mental strain; Noise sensitivity; Performance; Traffic noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANNOYANCE; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; NOISE INJURY; TRAFFIC NOISE;

EID: 67349210076     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-008-0379-0     Document Type: Article

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