ArticleScience advances2021
Traffic noise disrupts vocal development and suppresses immune function.
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- The impact of urbanization on health depends on the health metric, life stage and level of urbanization: a global meta-analysis on avian species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Pooled it
- An experimental test of chronic traffic noise exposure on parental behaviour and reproduction in zebra finches.Biology open · 2022Pooled it
- Association of Noise Exposure, Arterial Stiffness, and Blood Pressure in Chinese Adults.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Article
- Connection and communication between the nervous and immune systems.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2025Review
- Anuran communities increase aggregations of conspecific calls in response to aircraft noise.Current zoology · 2025Article
- Growing up with chronic traffic noise exposure leads to transient but not long-term noise tolerance in a songbird.Biology letters · 2025Article
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- Critical calls: Circadian and seasonal periodicity in vocal activity in a breeding colony of Panamanian golden frogs (Atelopus zeteki).PloS one · 2023Article
- Long-term effects of noise pollution on the avian dawn chorus: a natural experiment facilitated by the closure of an international airport.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Effect of Chronic Noise Exposure on Psychological and Physiological Indicators in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.Noise & healthArticle
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Noise pollution has been linked to learning and language deficits in children, but the causal mechanisms connecting noise to cognitive deficiencies remain unclear because experimental models are lacking. Here, we investigated the effects of noise on birdsong learning, the primary animal model for vocal learning and speech development in humans. We found that traffic noise exposure retarded vocal development and led to learning inaccuracies. In addition, noise suppressed immune function during the sensitive learning period, indicating that it is a potent stressor for birds, which is likely to compromise their cognitive functions. Our results provide important insights into the consequences of noise pollution and pave the way for future studies using birdsong as an experimental model for the investigation of noise-induced learning impairments.
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