Effects of soundscape on Chinese children's social interaction measured by self-reported behavioral expectations

Su, Hong Myung; Ma, Hui; Wang, Chao

doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109350

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“…The degree of enclosure of the landscape space affected the harmony of artificial sounds. The highest harmonization of children's playful sounds, sweeping sounds, and music sounds in open spaces might be due to the greater willingness to engage in human activities, including children's play in open spaces dominated by nodal plazas that provide a larger space for more extensive activities, more forms of activities, and enriching visual factors compared to the predominantly linear spaces of the urban greenway [61], or because children's activities in open spaces dominated by nodal plazas are in line with the users' expectations of the soundscape [62,63]. This further justified the conclusion that the creation of landscapes within the space affects the perception of the sound source [30].…”

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A Study on the Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Soundscape Perception in Landscape Spaces of Urban Greenways

Zhang,

Huang,

Zheng

et al. 2024

Forests

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The acoustic landscape directly affects people’s perceptual experience, which is crucial to enhancing urban greenways’ visibility experience. This study analyzed data from three typical urban greenways in Fuzhou City. By classifying and combining the landscape space into two levels of “enclosure–coverage”, the space was categorized into six types: covered, uncovered, open, semi-open, semi-enclosed, and enclosure space. We explored the characteristics of soundscape perception and the factors affecting the evaluation of soundscape perception in different landscape spaces. The results showed that differences in sound sources between day and night led to differences in the soundscape of different spatial types. The sound pressure level decreased with an increasing degree of enclosure and coverage. The evaluation scores of sound source perception and soundscape perception were significantly different in different degrees of spatial enclosure and coverage, where the open space and covered space were the most sensitive to sound, and the open space played a positive role in enhancing the harmony of the artificial sound. Pleasantness and richness were the main factors influencing overall perception, contributing 50% and 17%, respectively. Visitors’ age, residence type, and visit frequency were the main factors affecting the evaluation of soundscape perception. The conclusions provide a reference and data for improving urban greenways’ soundscape quality.

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A Study on the Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Soundscape Perception in Landscape Spaces of Urban Greenways

Zhang,

Huang,

Zheng

et al. 2024

Forests

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Developmental origins of natural sound perception

Polver,

Miller-Viacava,

Fraticelli

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Infants are exposed to a myriad of sounds early in life, including caregivers' speech, songs, human-made and natural (non-anthropogenic) environmental sounds. While decades of research have established that infants have sophisticated perceptual abilities to process speech, less is known about how they perceive natural environmental sounds. This review synthesizes current findings about the perception of natural environmental sounds in the first years of life, emphasizing their role in auditory development and describing how these studies contribute to the emerging field of human auditory ecology. Some of the existing studies explore infants' responses to animal vocalizations and water sounds. Infants demonstrate an initial broad sensitivity to primate vocalizations, which narrows to human speech through experience. They also show early recognition of water sounds, with preferences for natural over artificial water sounds already at birth, indicating an evolutionary ancient sensitivity. However, this ability undergoes refinement with age and experience. The few studies available suggest that infants' auditory processing of natural sounds is complex and influenced by both genetic predispositions and exposure. Building on these existing results, this review highlights the need for ecologically valid experimental paradigms that better represent the natural auditory environments humans evolved in. Understanding how children process natural soundscapes not only deepens our understanding of auditory development but also offers practical insights for advancing environmental awareness, improving auditory interventions for children with hearing loss, and promoting wellbeing through exposure to natural sounds.

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Effects of soundscape on Chinese children's social interaction measured by self-reported behavioral expectations

Cited by 2 publications

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A Study on the Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Soundscape Perception in Landscape Spaces of Urban Greenways

A Study on the Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Soundscape Perception in Landscape Spaces of Urban Greenways

Developmental origins of natural sound perception

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