Neurally Based Measurement and Evaluation of Environmental Noise

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

   Pages 1-3

3. Signal Processing Model of Human Auditory System

   • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

   Pages 5-50

4. Noise Measurement Method Based on the Model

   • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

   Pages 51-67

5. Temporal Primary Sensations of Noise

   • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

   Pages 69-103

6. Spatial Primary Sensations of Noise

   • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

   Pages 105-119

7. Noise Measurements

   • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

   Pages 121-165

8. Annoyance of Noise

   • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

   Pages 167-202

9. Short-Term Effects of Noise

   • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

   Pages 203-213

10. Long-Term Effects of Noise

    • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

    Pages 215-231

11. Application to Sound Design

    • Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando

    Pages 233-259

12. Back Matter

    Pages 261-264

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This book deals with methods of measurement and evaluation of environmental noise based on an auditory neural and brain-oriented model. The model consists of the autocorrelation function (ACF) and the interaural cross-correlation function (IACF) mechanisms for signals arriving at the two ear entrances. Even when the sound pressure level of a noise is only about 35 dBA, people may feel annoyed due to the aspects of sound quality. These aspects can be formulated by the factors extracted from the ACF and IACF. Several examples of measuring environmental noise—from outdoor noise such as that of aircraft, traffic, and trains, and indoor noise such as caused by floor impact, toilets, and air-conditioning—are demonstrated. According to the noise measurement and evaluation, applications for sound design are discussed. This book provides an excellent resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in a wide range of fields, such as the automotive, railway, and electronics industries, andsoundscape, architecture, and acoustics.

• Autocorrelation Function
• Brain-based Analysis and Evaluation
• Correlation Mechanism
• Interaural Cross-correlation Function
• Sound Quality Evaluation

“This book gives a detailed overview of the achievements in the evaluation of noise based on the subjective preference theory. … It gives, however, a complete overview of the state of the art on this subject being most relevant to students and scientists working in the field of auditory models.” (Heinrich Metzen, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 64 (5), September-October, 2016)

“This is a remarkable book concerning the EEG, EVP, and Psychophysics of human hearing and the human volunteer of psychophysics in the auditory system in general. … This is a great book about noise physiology and auditory psychophysics for students, research fellows, researchers, audiologists, and experimental sensory physiologists. … This is a good desk reference for audition researchers.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, July, 2015)

• National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Osaka, Japan

  Yoshiharu Soeta

• Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

  Yoichi Ando

Yoshiharu Soeta:
Board member of Acoustical Society of Japan in Kansai Branch, Assistant editor of Journal of Temporal Design in Architecture and the Environment, Ad-hoc reviewer of Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Journal of Neurophysiology, and NeuroImage.

Yoichi Ando:
A series editor of ‘Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing’.
http://www.springer.com/series/3754

Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Temporal Design in Architecture and the Environment, Ad-hoc reviewer of Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Sound and Vibration, and Acta Acustica united with Acustica.

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