Title
Annoyance by transportation noise: The effects of source identity and tonal components
Author
White, K.
Bronkhorst, A.W.
Meeter, M.
Publication year
2017
Abstract
Aircraft noise is consistently rated as more annoying than noise from other sources with similar intensity. In three experiments, it was investigated whether this penalty is due to the source identity of the noise. In the first experiment, four samples were played to participants engaged in a working memory task: road traffic noise, an Airbus 320 flyover, and unidentifiable, transformed versions of these samples containing the same spectral content and envelope. Original, identifiable samples were rated as more annoying than the transformed samples. A second experiment tested whether these results were due to the absence of tonal components in the transformed samples. This was partly the case: an additional sample, created from the A320 flyover by filtering out major tonal components, was rated as less annoying than the original A320 sample, but as more annoying than the transformed sample. In a third experiment, participants either received full disclosure of the generation of the samples or no information to identify the transformed samples. The transformed sample was rated as most annoying when the A320 identity was disclosed, but as least annoying when it was not. Therefore, it was concluded that annoyance is influenced by both identifiability and the presence of tonal components. © 2017 Acoustical Society of America.
Subject
Human & Operational Modelling
PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Noise pollution
Additional samples
Aircraft noise
Full disclosures
Identifiability
Road traffic noise
Source identity
Spectral content
Working memory
Rating
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4982921
TNO identifier
762775
ISSN
0001-4966
Source
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141 (5), 3137-3144
Bibliographical note
Funding details: NLR, Netherlands Leprosy Relief Funding text: The authors would like to thank Jan Verhave, Sebastiaan Mathôt, Thomas Koelewijn, Michael Arntzen, and Jeroen Sijl for their technical contributions. This study benefited from funding by the NLR (Netherlands Aerospace Centre, Amsterdam).
Document type
article