A Detailed Study of Low-Frequency Noise Complaints

Abstract

Document Version Early version, also known as pre-print Link to publication from Aalborg University Citation for published version (APA): Pedersen, C. S., Møller, H., & Persson-Waye, K. (2008). A detailed study of low-frequency noise complaints. Journal of Low Frequency Noise Vibration and Active Control, 27(1), 1-33. 10.1260/026309208784425505 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.? Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.? You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain? You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at vbn@aub.aau.dk providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim

Low Frequency Noise and Phantom Sounds

“…The acoustical environment in the dwellings of individual complainants has been investigated in a number of studies (see Pedersen et al [2008] for an overview of relevant studies). The results can be summarized as follows:…”

Deployment of a short-term geophysical field survey to monitor acoustic signals associated with the Windsor Hum

“…With each report also comes a wide range of potential sources. Predictions vary from mechanical sources (generators, worn industrial machines, ventilation systems (e.g., Berglund et al, 1996;Pedersen et al, 2008), gas pipelines (Krylov, 1995), ground borne vibrations (e.g., Manley and Styles, 2002;Rushforth et al, 2002), radio towers (Cowan, 2008), and, to human physiological traits such as psychological problems and tinnitus (Rice, 1994;Leventhall et al, 2003).…”

Responses to odors in occupational environments

“…In the auditory domain, for example, the addition of lowfrequency noise to the work environment has been shown to reduce performance in several cognitive tasks [34]. In the chemosensory domain, Van Thriel et al [35] have shown that individuals describing themselves as 'chemically sensitive' performed worse in a divided attention task during exposure to 1-octanal and isopropanol than did nonsensitive individuals.…”