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Benfield, Jacob A.; Bell, Paul A.; Troup, Lucy J.; Soderstrom, Nick – Environment and Behavior, 2010
Research on noise shows that a variety of effects including stress, annoyance, and performance decrements exist for certain types of sounds. Noise interferes with cognitive ability by overloading the attentional system or simply distracting from efficient encoding or rehearsal, but very little research has extended those findings to recreation or…
Descriptors: Parks, Memory, Cognitive Ability, Acoustics