The diversity of individual response to noise is revealed as anomalies in the region of low level low frequency noise, in which the role of sound character is undervalued. The paper considers the relevance of cognitive processing in determining response to noise, which would otherwise simply reflect the physical characteristics of the stimulus. The response experiment showed that sound character has a significant role in shaping response to noise and indicates that loudness is not the dominant element in the region considered.
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