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ArticleeNeuro2025

Loudness and Sound Category: Their Distinct Roles in Shaping Perceptual and Physiological Responses to Soundscapes.

Mercede Erfanian, Tin Oberman, Maria Chait, Jian Kang

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Article in eNeuro, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mercede ErfanianInstitute for Environmental Design & Engineering, University College London, London WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom ucbqmer@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9253-4162
Tin ObermanInstitute for Environmental Design & Engineering, University College London, London WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0014-0383
Maria ChaitEar Institute, University College London, London WC1X 8EE, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7808-3593
Jian KangInstitute for Environmental Design & Engineering, University College London, London WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8995-5636

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When compared with nature sounds, exposure to mechanical sounds evokes higher levels of perceptual and physiological arousal, prompting the recruitment of attentional and physiological resources to elicit adaptive responses. However, it is unclear whether these attributes are solely related to the sound intensity of mechanical sounds, since in most real-world scenarios, mechanical sounds are present at high intensities or if other acoustic or semantic factors are also at play. We measured the skin conductance response (SCR), reflecting sympathetic nervous system activity as well as the pleasantness and eventfulness of the soundscape across two passive and active listening tasks in healthy subjects (

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Auditory PerceptionSoundAcoustic StimulationAdolescentAdultFemaleGalvanic Skin ResponseHumansLoudness PerceptionMaleMiddle AgedTask Performance and AnalysisYoung AdulteventfulnesspleasantnessSCR amplitudeSCR rise-timeskin conductance response (SCR)soundscape

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PMID40908145
PMCPMC12463550

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