Peter Lercher

TL;DR: The ICBEN Community Response to Noise (CRO2N) survey as discussed by the authors was the first attempt to measure community response to noise in nine languages for which a standardized empirical study protocol has been followed to select annoyance scale words.

TL;DR: Examination of multimethodological indices of stress among children living under 50 dB or above 60 dB (A-weighted, day-night average sound levels) in small towns and villages in Austria found children in the noisier areas had elevated resting systolic blood pressure and 8-h, overnight urinary cortisol.

TL;DR: Soundscape research represents a paradigm shift from noise control policies towards a new multidisciplinary approach as it involves not only physical measurements but also the cooperation of humanity and social sciences to account for the diversity of soundscapes across countries and cultures, with more focus on how people actually experience the acoustic environments; and it considers environmental sounds as a "resource" rather than a "waste" as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This article found that chronic noise exposure was significantly related to both intentional and incidental memory, and recognition memory was worse for the chronically noise-exposed children, while no effects of chronic exposure were seen on visual search performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the integration of physiological, psychological, and ecological approaches within a combined transactional-contextual research perspective provides the best available framework for future studies and reanalysis of earlier studies given the necessary information is provided.