The effects of low frequency noise on mental performance and annoyance

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7043-7051

  Alimohammadi, Iraj ^a   Sandrock, Stephan ^b   Gohari, Mahmoud Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Institut fuer angewandte Arbeitswissenschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Extraversion; Low frequency noise; Mental performance; Neuroticism

Indexed keywords

ANNOYANCE; EXTRAVERSION; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROTICISM;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MACHINERY; NOISE POLLUTION; RESEARCH;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BACKGROUND LEVEL; MENTAL HEALTH; NOISE POLLUTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESEARCH WORK; URBAN AREA;

12 SCALE SELF REPORT QUESTIONNAIRE; ACCURACY; ADULT; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITRONE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVERSION; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROVERSION; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; STROOP TEST;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITION; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; IRRITABLE MOOD; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NOISE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879843536     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3084-8     Document Type: Article

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