Anna Preis

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Honorata Hafke-Dys

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Tomasz Kaczmarek

University of Łódź

Jan Felcyn

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Hideki Tachibana

Nippon Koei (Japan)

Mutsumi Ishibashi

Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute

Marie-Ève Héroux

Health Canada

Wolfgang Babisch

German Environment Agency

Goran Belojević

University of Belgrade

Göran Pershagen

Karolinska Institutet

Mark Brink

Federal Office for the Environment

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Polish Academy of Sciences

University of Gdańsk

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Gdańsk University of Technology

Polish Naval Academy

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Poznań University of Technology

AGH University of Krakow

Institute of Acoustics

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Data from: Bystanders intervene to impede grooming in Western chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys

Alexander Mielke Liran Samuni Anna Preis Jan F. Gogarten Cathy Crockford

Social grooming

10.5061/dryad.2sg0m

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WHO Environmental noise guidelines for the European Region - What is new? Guideline recommendations and supporting evidence - What is new?

Goran Belojević Wolfgang Babisch Mark Brink Marie-Ève Héroux Sabine A. Janssen

The Guidelines will include recommendations on transportation noise (air, road, rail), leisure noise and wind turbine noise, focusing on the exposure-response functions for the assessment of health impacts, and/or noise exposure levels above which there is an increased risk of adverse health effects. They will also include a recommendation of measures to be implemented by policy makers in order to reduce adverse effects of exposure to environmental noise in the population. General considerations and best practice statements that apply to the implementation of all specific recommendations will also be provided. WHO has adopted internationally recognized standards and methods for guideline development to ensure that guidelines are free from biases and meet public health needs. Building on the GRADE approach, a specific decision making framework has been developed to assess the quality of evidence of the relationship between source-specific environmental noise and health outcomes. The approach is also used to agree on factors influencing the recommendations, namely certainty about harms and benefits, values and preferences, as well as feasibility and resource implications. Based on these dimensions, the strength of the recommendation is set as either strong or conditional.

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Postępy badań w inżynierii dźwięku i obrazu. Nowe trendy i zastosowania technologii dźwięku wielokanałowego oraz badania jakości dźwięku

Politechnika Wrocławska, Oficyna Wydawnicza eBooks (2021)

Andrzej Czyżewski Andrzej Dobrucki Tadeusz Kamisiński Piotr Kleczkowski Bożena Kostek

10.37190/ido2021

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Annoyance of distortions of speech: Experiments on the influence of interruptions and random-noise impulses

Acustica (1989)

Anna Preis Ernst Terhardt

Annoyance

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The relationship between speech intelligibility and the assessment of noise annoyance

Noise Control Engineering Journal (2013)

Anna Preis Honorata Hafke-Dys Tomasz Kaczmarek Truls Gjestland Paweł Kleka

When thinking about noise annoyance, the tendency is to imagine a person's rest being disturbed by noise. Although this idea is not formulated explicitly, the majority of traditional experiments implicitly assume that absence of activity during rest represents the typical situation in which noise annoyance should be studied. We propose that research should be extended to different kinds of activities. This study focuses on one kind of activity: verbal communication. Our hypothesis is that the assessment of difficulty with speech comprehension can be replaced by a speech intelligibility measure, which could assess annoyance experienced during communicative activities. Finally, we would like to find out how noise annoyance disturbs communicative activity, and to compare this with annoyance experienced during rest. To test our hypothesis, two psychoacoustic experiments were performed. In Experiment I, speech intelligibility was measured for eight environmental noises at seven signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). For these SNR values, the participants assessed their difficulty with speech comprehension. This established the relationships between the intelligibility functions and the difficultly in speech comprehension for all the investigated noises. The results of Experiment I show that the potential noise annoyance rating could be predicted on the basis of the speech intelligibility scores, as they give much smaller inter-individual differences between participants than an annoyance assessment test. In Experiment II, the standard �resting� method of noise annoyance assessment was applied to the same eight noises. A comparison of the results indicated a correlation between the annoyance ratings obtained in both the experiments. Some limitations of this approach are also discussed in the paper.

Annoyance

Intelligibility (philosophy)

Psychoacoustics

10.3397/1/3761022

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Intrusive sounds

Applied Acoustics (1987)

Anna Preis

10.1016/0003-682x(87)90057-0

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The Psychoacoustic Assessments of Floor Impact Sounds

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集 (1998)

Anna Preis Shinichi Sakamoto Hideki Tachibana

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Supplementary material from "Bystanders intervene to impede grooming in Western chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys"

Alexander Mielke Liran Samuni Anna Preis Jan F. Gogarten Catherine Crockford

Grooming interactions benefit groomers, but may have negative consequences for bystanders. Grooming limits bystanders' grooming access and ensuing alliances could threaten the bystander's hierarchy rank or their previous investment in the groomers. To gain a competitive advantage, bystanders could intervene into a grooming bout to increase their own grooming access or to prevent the negative impact of others' grooming. We tested the impact of dominance rank and social relationships on grooming intervention likelihood and outcome in two sympatric primate species, Western chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes verus ) and sooty mangabeys ( Cercocebus atys atys ). In both species, rather than increasing their own access to preferred partners, bystanders intervened mainly when an alliance between groomers could have a negative impact on them: when the lower-ranking groomer was close to the bystander in rank, when either groomer was an affiliation partner whose services they could lose, or the groomers were not yet strongly affiliated with each other. Thus, bystanders in both species appear to monitor grooming interactions and intervene based on their own dominance rank and social relationships, as well as triadic awareness of the relationship between groomers. While the motivation to intervene did not differ between species, mangabeys appeared to be more constrained by dominance rank than chimpanzees.

Social grooming

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Troglodytes

10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3911944.v1

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Influence of sound source recognition on annoyance judgment

Noise Control Engineering Journal (2008)

Anna Preis Honorata Hafke-Dys Tomasz Kaczmarek

Research on annoyance usually focuses on the annoyance estimation of the perceived acoustic signal. It disregards the fact that the basic aim of the auditory system is the detection of the properties of the sound source and not the sound signal itself. In this study the annoyance caused by a tram and a bus and two pairs of artificially modified original recordings has been investigated under two experimental conditions. In the first, subjects judged the noise annoyance of the original signals (the tram and bus) together with two modified sound sources (a tram-like bus and a bus-like tram). In the second, the original signals were judged together with another pair of modified sound sources (a tram-like noise and a bus-like noise). The tram-like bus and bus-like tram signals were created in the way that hybrid instruments are built, while the tram-like noise and bus-like noise were simply white noise shaped in accordance with the power spectrum envelope of the original signals. Although both types of modified signals had the same power spectra and time patterns as the original signals, the tram-like bus and bus-like tram signals were more similar in their effect on annoyance judgments to the original recordings than the tram-like noise and bus-like noise signals. It is shown that the same acoustic characteristics of signals, including the calculated loudness, does not necessarily entail the same annoyance judgments. The annoyance judgments of two original signals - the tram and bus - obtained in the two psychoacoustic experiments were not the same. A possible explanation of this phenomenon is discussed.

Annoyance

10.3397/1.2949893

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Pitch Processing of Speech: Comparison of Psychoacoustic and Electrophysiological Data

Archives of Acoustics (2013)

Małgorzata Wrzosek Justyna Maculewicz Honorata Hafke-Dys Agnieszka M. Nowik Anna Preis

Abstract The present study consisted of two experiments. The goal of the first experiment was to establish the just noticeable differences for the fundamental frequency of the vowel /u/ by using the 2AFC method. We obtained the threshold value for 27 cents. This value is larger than the motor reaction values which had been observed in previous experiments (e.g. 9 or 19 cents). The second experiment was intended to provide neurophysiological confirmation of the detection of shifts in a frequency, using event-related potentials (ERPs). We concentrated on the mismatch negativity (MMN) - the component elicited by the change in the pattern of stimuli. Its occurrence is correlated with the discrimination threshold. In our study, MMN was observed for changes greater than 27 cents - shifts of ±50 and 100 cents (effect size - Cohen’s d = 2.259). MMN did not appear for changes of ±10 and 20 cents. The results showed that the values for which motor responses can be observed are indeed lower than those for perceptual thresholds.

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Neurophysiology

10.2478/aoa-2013-0044

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