@article {Frescura:2023:0736-2935:298,
title = "Effect of neighbours sounds in wooden residential buildings on restorative EEG rhythm (Alpha waves)",
journal = "INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings",
parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/incecp",
publishercode ="ince",
year = "2023",
volume = "265",
number = "7",
publication date ="2023-02-01T00:00:00",
pages = "298-306",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0736-2935",
url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/incecp/2023/00000265/00000007/art00036",
doi = "doi:10.3397/IN_2022_0047",
author = "Frescura, Alessia and Lee, Pyoung-Jik and Jeong, Jeong-Ho and Soeta, Yoshiharu",
abstract = "The present study aimed to explore the effect of neighbours sounds commonly heard in wooden residential buildings on restorative EEG rhythm represented by Alpha waves. Thirty participants took part in a listening test which was performed to collect EEG data in distinct acoustics scenarios.
Noise sensitivity and attitude toward neighbours were introduced as non-acoustic moderators and assessed through questionnaires before the experiment. A series of impact and airborne sounds were presented through loudspeakers and subwoofer, while participants sat comfortably in the simulated
living room wearing the EEG headset (B-alert X24(r) system). The impact sound sources were two types of footsteps, adult walking and child running, recorded in a laboratory on different floor configurations and thus, varying in sound pressure level and frequency characteristics. The airborne
sound sources were a lively conversation and a piece of classical piano music, digitally filtered to represent good and poor sound insulation performances of vertical partitions. The effect of sound stimuli and non-acoustic factors on restorative EEG rhythm corresponding to Alpha waves (8-13
Hz) was then analysed. Differences in response to distinct acoustic scenario were observed. Additionally, Alpha band activity showed to be affected by noise sensitivity and attitude toward neighbours of participants.",
}