Sleep disturbance caused by meaningful sounds and the effect of background noise
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...The brain is able to perceive, to analyse and to respond adequately to acoustic stimuli even during sleep and individuals have been shown to react more to meaningful than to neutral stimuli [7,8]....
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...Type of traffic noise The hypothesis adopted for this study bases firstly on the replicated observation that man responds more likely to meaningful than to neutral noises even during sleep [7,8] and secondly on a meta-analysis according to which aircraft noise annoys most and rail noise the least [2,3]....
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...Although in this experiment the noise level did not exceed 35 dB, a level that had no effect on sleep quality [48], and there was only one elderly who complained about noise, PV terminals with lower noise should be developed, since insomnia is more prevalent in the elderly [49] and probably they are more vulnerable to noise....
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...In a third Japanese study, the same methods were applied again.[29] The study contained 20 subjects aged between 20 and 42 years....
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...Namba et al.[29] Field study with presented sounds Japan Music, air conditioning noise Database: Journal article Noise presentation; exposure-effect relationship Time when switching off the minidisk player, questionnaire [Downloaded free from http://www....
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...Meaningful sounds from leisure and neighbor noise showed a tendency to disturb sleep according to the national inventory studies from the Netherlands, the LARES study and the different Japanese studies of Kuwano et al. and Namba et al.[8,22,27-29] The national inventory study 1998 from the Netherlands detected also small sleep disturbances due to church bell and mosque noise and noise from recycling of bottles....
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...Noise & Health, July-August 2011, Volume 13 308 Meaningful sounds such as those emanating from leisure and neighbor noise seem in most cases to lead to sleep disturbance,[3,7,8,18-20,22,23,27-29] an exception being the study of Sasazawa et al....
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...and Namba et al.[8,22,27-29] The national inventory study 1998 from the Netherlands detected also small sleep disturbances due to church bell and mosque noise and noise from recycling of bottles....
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