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The effects of moderate heat stress and open-plan office noise distraction on SBS symptoms and on the performance of office work. Indoor Air 2004;14(Suppl
"... ABSTRACT Thirty subjects clothed for comfort at 22°C performed simulated office work for 3 hours at 22/26/30°C (7.4 g/kg dry air, i.e. 45/35/28 %RH) in quiet and recorded open-plan office noise (55 dBA) conditions. Warmth decreased perceived air quality (P<0.01) and increased odour intensity (P& ..."
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ABSTRACT Thirty subjects clothed for comfort at 22°C performed simulated office work for 3 hours at 22/26/30°C (7.4 g/kg dry air, i.e. 45/35/28 %RH) in quiet and recorded open-plan office noise (55 dBA) conditions. Warmth decreased perceived air quality (P<0.01) and increased odour intensity (P
Enlarge Fatal distraction?
"... A Caribbean hermit crab may get distracted by blasts of noise and slow down at picking up cues that danger's approaching. Grook Da Oger/Wikimedia Commons Hermit crabs donʼt send text messages while scurrying, but human technology may be distracting them all the same. When boat noise roared over ..."
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A Caribbean hermit crab may get distracted by blasts of noise and slow down at picking up cues that danger's approaching. Grook Da Oger/Wikimedia Commons Hermit crabs donʼt send text messages while scurrying, but human technology may be distracting them all the same. When boat noise roared
Neural Effects of Auditory Distraction on Visual Attention in Schizophrenia
"... Sensory flooding, particularly during auditory stimulation, is a common problem for patients with schizophrenia. The functional consequences of this impairment during cross-modal attention tasks, however, are unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine how auditory distraction differentially a ..."
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affects task-associated response during visual attention in patients and healthy controls. To that end, 21 outpatients with schizophrenia and 23 healthy comparison subjects performed a visual attention task in the presence or absence of distracting, environmentally relevant ‘‘urban’ ’ noise while
Distraction of attention and the slope of the psychometric function
, 1998
"... The influential uncertainty model [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 1508 (1985)] attributes nonlinear contrast sensitivity near threshold to the inability of the observer to discriminate between the signal from stimulated locations and the noise from nonstimulated locations. We introduce an alternative interpr ..."
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interpretation, the distraction model, to describe the behavior of an observer who knows exactly which location was stimulated but may miss the test stimulus because attention has been distracted by irrelevant (noise) signals. For any stimulus sample, the observer is assumed to be certain of whether this sample
Effect of Disparity Noise on Stereoscopic Surface Perception
"... Stereoscopic surface detection of human and ideal observers was assessed using a signal detection paradigm. Signal displays were disparity defined sinusoidal or square wave corrugations in depth containing various amounts of additive disparity noise. Distracter displays were created by scrambling pu ..."
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Stereoscopic surface detection of human and ideal observers was assessed using a signal detection paradigm. Signal displays were disparity defined sinusoidal or square wave corrugations in depth containing various amounts of additive disparity noise. Distracter displays were created by scrambling
Flash Photography Enhancement via Intrinsic Relighting
- ACM Trans. Graphics
, 2004
"... Figure 1: (a) Top: Photograph taken in a dark environment, the image is noisy and/or blurry. Bottom: Flash photography provides a sharp but flat image with distracting shadows at the silhouette of objects. (b) Inset showing the noise of the available-light image. (c) Our technique merges the two ima ..."
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Figure 1: (a) Top: Photograph taken in a dark environment, the image is noisy and/or blurry. Bottom: Flash photography provides a sharp but flat image with distracting shadows at the silhouette of objects. (b) Inset showing the noise of the available-light image. (c) Our technique merges the two
Individual differences in distractibility: An update and a model
, 2013
"... Abstract: This paper reviews the current literature on individual differences in susceptibility to the effects of background sound on visual-verbal task performance.A large body of evidence suggests that individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) underpin individual differences in susce ..."
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in susceptibility to auditory distraction in most tasks and contexts. Specifically, high WMC is associated with a more steadfast locus of attention (thus overruling the call for attention that background noise may evoke) and a more constrained auditory-sensory gating (i.e., less processing of the background sound
Improving the performance of NIRSbased brain-computer interfaces in the presence of background auditory distractions
- Proceedings 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
, 2010
"... In this paper, the effects of auditory distractions on the per-formance of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) are investigated. Experiments show that NIRS-BCI specificity decreases by an average 19% when operated in the presence of continuous background noise ..."
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In this paper, the effects of auditory distractions on the per-formance of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) are investigated. Experiments show that NIRS-BCI specificity decreases by an average 19% when operated in the presence of continuous background noise
Sources of auditory masking in infants: Distraction effects. Perception h Psychophysics
, 1991
"... Previous work has demonstrated that infants ’ thresholds for a pure tone are elevated by a masker more than would be predicted from their critical bandwidths. The present studies explored the nature of this additional masking. In Experiment 1, detection thresholds of 6-month-old infants and of adult ..."
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, indicating that little or no sensory masking took place in the presence of the noise. Infant thresholds were about 10 dB higher in the presence of the noise. We term this effect distraction masking. In Experiment 2, the effect of gating the noise on at trial onset was examined. Thresholds for the same tone
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