Psychophysiological responses to potentially annoying heating, ventilation, and air conditioning noise during mentally demanding work

Love, Jordan; Sung, Weonchan; Francis, Alexander L.

doi:10.1121/10.0006383

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“…Jordan 53 simulated indoor environment exposure in the laboratory and found that heating, ventilation, and air‐conditioning (HVAC) equipment background noises may affect individuals' physiological responses. Kathryn J 54 reported that the HVAC system was responsible for the high‐baseline noise level in the medical intensive care unit.…”

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Association of indoor noise level with depression in hotel workers: A multicenter study from 111 China's cities

Liu

Lin

et al. 2022

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The noise level is associated with stress, 1 annoyance, 2 sleep disturbance, 3 cardiovascular disease, 4 and impaired cognitive performance, 5 particularly loud noise such as airports and their surroundings, 6,7 traffic road noise, 8,9 urban public activity space, 10 and recreational settings. 11,12 Meanwhile, the general population is exposed to multiple chronic or low-frequency noise sources, such as air conditioner noise and ventilation noise, due to occupational and residential exposure. Long-term exposure to noise in combination with other factors may result in adverse psychological outcomes and worse neuropsychiatric performance. 13,14 Although there are few

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Association of indoor noise level with depression in hotel workers: A multicenter study from 111 China's cities

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Lin

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“…Differences in noise sensitivity between people result in different levels of noise annoyance. Jordan et al stated that individual differences in physiological response to noise as a function of noise sensitivity [35].…”

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Analysis of the Relationships between Noise Exposure and Stress/Arousal Mood at Different Levels of Workload

Madvari,

Bidel,

Mehri

et al. 2024

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Noise is one of the environmental factors with mental and physical effects. The workload is also the multiple mental and physical demands of the task. Therefore, his study investigated the relationship between noise exposure and mood states at different levels of workload. The study recruited 50 workers from the manufacturing sector (blue-collar workers) as the exposed group and 50 workers from the office sector (white-collar workers) as the control group. Their occupational noise exposure was measured by dosimetry. The Stress-Arousal Checklist (SACL) and the NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) were used to measure mood and workload, respectively. The equivalent noise exposure level of the exposed group at high and very high workload levels was 85 and 87 dBA, respectively. The mean mood score of the exposed group was 76 at very high workload. The correlation coefficient between noise exposure level and mood state based on workload levels ranged from 0.3 at medium workload to 0.57 at very high workload. Noise exposure at high workload levels can increase its adverse effects, so controlling and optimizing the multiple demands of the task in the workplace can be used as a privative measure to reduce the adverse effects of noise.

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“…The statements above are not meant as a callous critique of the studies that use shorter speech stimuli, but rather a caution against interpreting (null results or) positive results from such studies as representing the (lack of) effortful processes that comprise speech recognition in regular situations. The effort in the aforementioned constrained tasks is likely still relevant, and possibly related to the cost of task-switching (McLaughlin et al 2019), test anxiety and motivation to perform (Jones et al 2014), awareness of mistakes, or physiological response to noise (Love et al 2021;Kim et al 2021), among other factors. Other effort can result from familiarity with topics and similarity of stimuli in a short span of time (Konopka & Kuchinsky 2015).…”

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Effortful listening despite correct responses: the cost of mental repair in sentence recognition by listeners with cochlear implants

Winn¹,

Teece²

2021

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PurposeSpeech recognition percent-correct scores fail to capture the effort of mentally repairing the perception of speech that was initially misheard. This study includes two experiments to simulate and measure the effort of this experience of mental repair, from the perspective of both listener and talker.MethodsCochlear implant (CI) listeners heard and repeated sentences where single words were distorted or masked by noise, but recoverable based on later context – a signature of mental repair. Changes in pupil dilation were tracked as an index of effort and time-locked with specific landmarks during perception. Later, audio recordings of the participants’ responses were played for outside observers who judged whether they thought the CI user mentally repaired a word.ResultsEffort significantly increases when a listener needs to repair a misperceived word, even if the verbal response is ultimately correct. That increased effort lasts longer for CI users than for listeners with normal hearing. There was no success in detecting that effort by nearly 200 external observers including audiologists and others who profess to have experience and skill in conversing with people who have hearing loss. Mental repair of words in a sentence were accompanied by greater prevalence of errors elsewhere in the same sentence, suggesting that effort spreads to consume resources across time. ConclusionsListening effort is better explained by the mental repair and reconstruction of words rather than the appearance of correct or incorrect perception. Linguistic coherence drives effort more heavily than the mere presence of mistakes, highlighting the importance of effort that cannot be tracked with individual words or digits. However, an external observer is not able to reliably detect that extra effort in the listener’s voice.

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Psychophysiological responses to potentially annoying heating, ventilation, and air conditioning noise during mentally demanding work

Cited by 14 publications

References 93 publications

Association of indoor noise level with depression in hotel workers: A multicenter study from 111 China's cities

Association of indoor noise level with depression in hotel workers: A multicenter study from 111 China's cities

Analysis of the Relationships between Noise Exposure and Stress/Arousal Mood at Different Levels of Workload

Effortful listening despite correct responses: the cost of mental repair in sentence recognition by listeners with cochlear implants

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