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  • Effects of natural sounds on the perception of road traffic noise

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    De Coensel, Bert
    Vanwetswinkel, Sofie
    Botteldooren, Dick
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    De Coensel, Bert
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Recent studies show that introducing sound from water features in urban open spaces may reduce the loudness of road traffic noise, but it is not clear in which situations this measure also improves overall soundscape quality. This work describes a listening experiment on loudness, pleasantness, and eventfulness of stimuli that combine road traffic noise with fountain or bird sound at different sound levels. Adding fountain sound reduced the loudness of road traffic noise only if the latter had low temporal variability. Conversely, adding bird sound significantly enhanced soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness, more than ...
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    Recent studies show that introducing sound from water features in urban open spaces may reduce the loudness of road traffic noise, but it is not clear in which situations this measure also improves overall soundscape quality. This work describes a listening experiment on loudness, pleasantness, and eventfulness of stimuli that combine road traffic noise with fountain or bird sound at different sound levels. Adding fountain sound reduced the loudness of road traffic noise only if the latter had low temporal variability. Conversely, adding bird sound significantly enhanced soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness, more than what was achieved by adding fountain sound.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Volume
    129
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3567073
    Copyright Statement
    © 2011 Acoustical Society of America. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Acoustics
    Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/401175
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