ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015
Differential effects of white noise in cognitive and perceptual tasks.
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- Cognitive performance, creativity and stress levels of neurotypical young adults under different white noise levels.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Stimulation with acoustic white noise enhances motor excitability and sensorimotor integration.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Dissociable effects of music and white noise on conflict-induced behavioral adjustments.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The impact of musical pleasure and musical hedonia on verbal episodic memory.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Identifying site- and stimulation-specific TMS-evoked EEG potentials using a quantitative cosine similarity metric.PloS one · 2020Article
- Effects of stimulus intensity and auditory white noise on human somatosensory cognitive processing: a study using event-related potentials.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- White noise enhances new-word learning in healthy adults.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Beneficial effects of noise on higher cognition have recently attracted attention. Hypothesizing an involvement of the mesolimbic dopamine system and its functional interactions with cortical areas, the current study aimed to demonstrate a facilitation of dopamine-dependent attentional and mnemonic functions by externally applying white noise in five behavioral experiments including a total sample of 167 healthy human subjects. During working memory, acoustic white noise impaired accuracy when presented during the maintenance period (Experiments 1-3). In a reward based long-term memory task, white noise accelerated perceptual judgments for scene images during encoding but left subsequent recognition memory unaffected (Experiment 4). In a modified Posner task (Experiment 5), the benefit due to white noise in attentional orienting correlated weakly with reward dependence, a personality trait that has been associated with the dopaminergic system. These results suggest that white noise has no general effect on cognitive functions. Instead, they indicate differential effects on perception and cognition depending on a variety of factors such as task demands and timing of white noise presentation.
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