In this paper, some aspects of the psychophysical background of environmental noise assessment are touched. Psychophysical methods useful for the measurement of environmental noise are mentioned. The simulation of the loudness perception for normal hearing and hearing impaired persons is illustrated. Moreover, the influence of the meaning of sound as well as of additional modalities on noise as...

Urban environmental information (EI) is related to knowledge concerning the status, the pressures and the consequences of environmental quality parameters to human life and the urban surroundings. One of the most important aspects in the life cycle of EI is knowledge generation and flow, data management and information dissemination between ICT systems and environmental actors, players, or inte...

Retrospective symptom prevalence data, collected from over 2000 adult respondents living near three different hazardous waste sites, were analyzed with respect to both self-reported "environmental worry" and frequency of perceiving environmental (particularly petrochemical) odors. Significant positive relationships were observed between the prevalence of several symptoms (headache, nausea, eye ...

Michaels (2000) suggested that vision for perception can and should be separated from vision for action. Methodological, logical, and empirical grounds for this conclusion are critically discussed. Data are presented that perception and action are not 2 different entities, and therefore, they can neither follow each other (the view that Michaels rejects) nor run in parallel (the view she appear...

Due to the superiority of functional requirements of equipment and systems over human requirements in the field of architectural and environmental design of industrial buildings, users have to adapt themselves to the conditions which might be followed by imposed biological and psychological pressures. The present study examines the components and environmental parameters influenced by building ...

Research on distance perception has focused on environmental sources of information, which have been well documented; in contrast, size perception research has focused on familiarity or has relied on distance information. An analysis of these two parallel bodies of work reveals their lack of equivalence. Furthermore, definitions of familiarity need environmental grounding, specifically concerni...

Previous work has demonstrated that children who are poor readers have short-term memory deficits in tasks in which the stimuli lend themselves to phonetic coding. The aim of the present study was to explore whether the poor readers' memory deficit may have its origin in perception with the encoding of the stimuli. Three experiments were conducted with third grade good and poor readers. As in e...

background: evaluating the factors influence student perception, might allow programmatic changes designed to enhance students’ psychosocial well-being and academic performance. the purpose of this study was to investigate perceived sources of stress on dental students and the role of parents in their career choice decisions. methods: in a cross-sectional design , a modified dental environmenta...