Activity interference caused by traffic noise: Experimental determination and modeling of the number of noticed sound events

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 389-398

  Terroir, Jonathan ^a   De Coensel, Bert ^b   Botteldooren, Dick ^b   Lavandier, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY ATTENTION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; NUMBER OF TRAINS; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; READING ACTIVITIES; STOCHASTIC FUNCTIONS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EXPERIMENTS; NOISE POLLUTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84878292452     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918620     Document Type: Article

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