An Experimental Evaluation of Annoyance Due to Low Frequency Noise

Borredon P. (1980). Physiological Effects of Infrasound in Our Everyday Environment. IN: Møller H Rubak P. , eds. Conference on Low Frequency Noise and Hearing, May 1980, Aalborg, Denmark, pp 61–67.

Bryan M. E. (1971). Annoyance Effects due to Low Frequency Sounds. British Acoustical Society Meeting on Infrasound 26th November. University of Salford, Lancashire.

Churcher B.G. King A.J. Davies H. (1937). The measurement of noise with special reference to engineering noise problems. J. Inst. Eke. Engr. Vol. 81, 57–90.

Fidell S. Teffeteller S. Horonjeff R. Green D.M. (1979). Predicting annoyance from detectability of low-level sounds. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 66, 1427–1434.

Fidell S. Teffeteller S. (1981). Scaling the annoyance of intrusive sounds. J. Sound. Vib. Vol. 78, 291–298.

Fletcher H. Munson W.A. , (1933) Loudness, its definition, measurement and calculation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 5; 82–108

Gamberale F. Goldstein M. Kjellberg A. Liszka L. Lofstedt P. (1982). The degree of annoyance and loudness experiment of noise with low frequency components. (In Swedish). Arbete och Halsa Vol. 2, 1–26.

Gamberale F. Goldstein M. Kjellberg A. (1984). Development and testing a new method to estimate the perception of sound and noise. (In Swedish). Arbete och Halsa Vol. 3, 1–30.

Green D.M. Swets J.A. (1966). Signal detection theory and psychophysics. New York, Wiley.

Griffiths I. Langdon F.J. (1968). Subjective response to road traffic noise. J. Sound Vib. Vol. 8, 16–32.

ISO (1961). Normal equal loudness contours for pure tones and normal threshold of hearing under free-field estimating conditions, Geneva, International Organisation for Standardization (ISO R 226) pp 1–8.

Kingsbury B.A. (1927). A direct comparison of the loudness of pure tones. Physiol Rev, Vol. 29, 588–600.

Kryter K. D. Pearsons K.S. (1963). Some effects of spectral content and duration on perceived noise level. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol 35, 866–883.

Labiale G. (1983). Laboratory study of the influence of noise level and vehicle number on annoyance. J. Sound Vib. Vol. 90, 361–371.

Leventhall H.G. (1980). Annoyance caused by low frequency/low level noise. In: Møller H. Rubak P. , Eds., Conference on Low Frequency Noise and Hearing, Aalborg, May 1980. pp 113–120.

Persson K. Rylander R , (1986). Low frequency noise – a source of annoyance. A survey of complaints concerning low frequency noise made to the Local Health Authorities in Sweden (In Swedish). University of Gothenburg, Dept. of Environmental Hygiene Report, nr 1/86.

Reese T.W. Kryter K.D. Stevens S.S. (1944). The relative annoyance produced by various bands of noise. Harvard Univ. PB No 27, 306. Phycho-Acoust. Lab. pp 270–307.

Robinson D.W. Dadson R.S. (1956). A re-determination of the equal-loudness relations for pure tones. Br. J. Appl. Phys. Vol. 7, 166–181.

Rylander R. Sorensen S. Kajland A. (1972). Annoyance reactions from aircraft noise exposures. J. Sound. Vib. Vol.24: 419–444.

Rylander R. Sorensen S. Bjorkman M. Ahrlin U. (1977). Tramway noise in city traffic. J. Sound Vib. Vol. 51: 353–358.

Tempest W. (1973). Loudness and annoyance due to low frequency sound. Acustica, Vol. 29: 205–209.

Vasudevan R.N. Gordon C.G. (1977). Experimental study of annoyance due to low frequency environmental noise. Applied Acoustics, Vol. 10: 57–69.

Weinstein N.D. (1978). Individual differences in reactions to noise: A longitudinal study in a college dormitory. J. Appl. Psychol, Vol. 63: 458–466.

Weinstein N.D. (1980). Individual differences in critical tendencies and noise annoyance. J. Sound Vib. Vol. 68: 241–248.