ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2017
Influences of background noise on infants and children.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Noise, air pollution exposure and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Residential Proximity to Major Roadways and Risk of Allergic Respiratory Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025Pooled it
- Investigating the effects of occupational and environmental noise on cardiovascular diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Pooled it
- Infants and Adults Use Visual Cues to Improve Detection and Discrimination of Speech in Noise.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2019Trial
- Socioeconomic Status, the Home Language Environment, Noise Exposure, and the Mismatch Response in Infancy.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Screen Time Is More than Just the Screen: Indirect Media Exposure Dominates Infants' Digital Environments.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2026Article
- What's that noise-tackling sound pollution in the NICU: a systematic review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Systematic measurement and machine learning-based profile characterization of community noise in a medium-large city in the United States.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- An automated framework for traffic noise level analysis using explainable artificial intelligence techniques.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The relationship between the spatial and temporal patterns of urban noise dispersion and social perceptions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Improvement and Validation of a Smart Road Traffic Noise Model Based on Vehicles Tracking Using Image Recognition: EAgLE 3.0.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Perinatal Imaging in Partnership with Families (PIPKIN): Longitudinal cohort study protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
- Infants' home auditory environment: Background sounds shape language interactions.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Recognition of Emotional Prosody in Mandarin-Speaking Children: Effects of Age, Noise, and Working Memory.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2024Article
- Home Language Experience Shapes Which Skills Are Used during Unfamiliar Speech Processing.Languages (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Coupling Different Road Traffic Noise Models with a Multilinear Regressive Model: A Measurements-Independent Technique for Urban Road Traffic Noise Prediction.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Children's use of spatial and visual cues for release from perceptual masking.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
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- Association of neighborhood physical activity facilities with incident cardiovascular disease.International journal of health geographics · 2023Article
- Noise-induced differences in the complexity of spoken language.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
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Abstract
The goal of this review is to provide a high-level, selected overview of the consequences of background noise on health, perception, cognition, and learning during early development, with a specific focus on how noise may impair speech comprehension and language learning (e.g., via masking). Although much of the existing literature has focused on adults, research shows that infants and young children are relatively disadvantaged at listening in noise. Consequently, a major goal is to consider how background noise may affect young children, who must learn and develop language in noisy environments despite being simultaneously less equipped to do so.
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