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Noise and Health, 2017 Environmental noise and health studies seldom address the positive effect of environments with high acoustic quality. Sound quality, in turn, is influenced by a large number of factors, including the spatial–physical characteristics of a neighborhood. In
Jeroen Devilee +4 more
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Going beyond Quietness: Determining the Emotionally Restorative Effect of Acoustic Environments in Urban Open Public Spaces [PDF]
, 2019 The capacity of natural settings to promote psychological restoration has attracted increasing research attention, especially with regards to the visual dimension. However, there is a need to extend these studies to urban settings, such as squares, parks
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, 2015 Browsing soundscapes is generally based on the waveform of the audio signal or textual metadata, which may be not informative. The TM-charts provide an efficient tool to represent and compare soundscapes. However, they remain little used probably due to the human annotation they need.
Guyot, Patrice, Pinquier, Julien
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Contemporary Sound Practices: Church Bells and Bell Ringing in New South Wales, Australia
Heritage, 2021 As a social species, humans have developed soundscapes that surround, and to some extent circumscribe, their daily existence. The concept of aural heritage, its conceptualization and its management represent a rapidly expanding area of research, covering
Murray Parker, Dirk H. R. Spennemann
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Kulturella Perspektiv, 2023 Recent studies demonstrate a significant level of interest to literature as a source of insight on sound and hearing. Attention has focused on the new ways to approach the acoustic dimensions of text, featuring narrative representation of sound in its physical characteristics and the psycho-somatic peculiarities of perception.
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Immersive Composition for Sensory Rehabilitation: 3D Visualisation, Surround Sound, and Synthesised Music to Provoke Catharsis and Healing [PDF]
, 2014 There is a wide range of sensory therapies using sound, music and visual stimuli. Some focus on soothing or distracting stimuli such as natural sounds or classical music as analgesic, while other approaches emphasize the active performance of producing ...
A. Cohen +9 more
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Ecosystems and PeopleNatural soundscapes, a blend of natural and human-made sounds, enhance human health by reducing stress, improving cognitive function, and increasing happiness. They foster a connection to nature and raise awareness of biodiversity loss.
Ian Thornhill +18 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Research on human caused sound has shown a wide range of effects in outdoor environments as well as laboratory simulations of those environments. Aircraft noise, ground traffic, and human voices have all been shown to lower scenic evaluation ratings and ...
Jacob A. Benfield +3 more
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The Sacred Soundscapes of Mountain Wilderness
Religions, 2023 Sound and silence in nature intensify our perception of the non-anthropogenic world, of that which seems unaffected by humans and has been considered transcendent, eternal, and sacred. This is especially true in mountain settings.
Marcus Zagorski
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Metaphors of Tinnitus as an Acoustic Environment
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2022 This paper is a qualitative study of metaphors at the levels of lexico-encyclopedic conceptual (LEC) metaphors (Johansson Falck 2018, forthc.) in nineteenth-century medical records of tinnitus and hearing disorders by English-speaking (the UK and the US)
Elena Glotova, Marlene Johansson Falck
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