Acoustical characteristics of water sounds for soundscape enhancement in urban open spaces

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2101-2109

  Jeon, Jin Yong ^a   Lee, Pyoung Jik ^a   You, Jin ^a   Kang, Jian ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; AUDIO-VISUAL; DOMINANT FACTOR; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OPEN SPACE; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUNDSCAPES; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; URBAN NOISE; URBAN SOUNDSCAPE; VISUAL IMAGE;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EXPERIMENTS;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; URBAN HEALTH; WATER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858988762     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3681938     Document Type: Article

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