Sound localization and occupational noise
| Autor: | Aline Tenório Lins Carnaúba, Mariana de Carvalho Leal, Kelly Cristina Lira de Andrade, Liliane Desgualdo Pereira, Pedro de Lemos Menezes, Frantania B. Cabral |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Adult
Male Sound localization medicine.medical_specialty Hearing loss Audiology Young Adult Hearing Reference Values medicine Humans Sound Localization Occupational Health Sound (geography) Mathematics Analysis of Variance lcsh:R5-920 geography geography.geographical_feature_category Hearing Tests Auditory Threshold General Medicine Clinical Science Middle Aged Occupational Transverse plane Noise Case-Control Studies Firefighters Reference values Noise Occupational Sound sources Female medicine.symptom lcsh:Medicine (General) |
| Zdroj: | Clinics, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 083-086, Published: FEB 2014 Clinics; v. 69 n. 2 (2014); 83-86 Clinics; Vol. 69 Núm. 2 (2014); 83-86 Clinics; Vol. 69 No. 2 (2014); 83-86 Clinics Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP Clinics, Vol 69, Iss 2, Pp 083-086 (2014) |
| ISSN: | 1980-5322 1807-5932 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of occupational noise on sound localization in different spatial planes and frequencies among normal hearing firefighters. METHOD: A total of 29 adults with pure-tone hearing thresholds below 25 dB took part in the study. The participants were divided into a group of 19 firefighters exposed to occupational noise and a control group of 10 adults who were not exposed to such noise. All subjects were assigned a sound localization task involving 117 stimuli from 13 sound sources that were spatially distributed in horizontal, vertical, midsagittal and transverse planes. The three stimuli, which were square waves with fundamental frequencies of 500, 2,000 and 4,000 Hz, were presented at a sound level of 70 dB and were randomly repeated three times from each sound source. The angle between the speaker's axis in the same plane was 45°, and the distance to the subject was 1 m. RESULT: The results demonstrate that the sound localization ability of the firefighters was significantly lower (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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