Experimental study on hearing thresholds for low-frequency pure tones

Acoustical Science and Technology

Hiroo Yano²  Sakae Yokoyama¹  Hideki Tachibana²  Shinichi Sakamoto¹ 

[1] Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo;Chiba Institute of Technology

关键词: Wind turbine noise;    Low-frequency sound;    Hearing threshold;   

DOI  :  10.1250/ast.35.213

学科分类：声学和超声波

来源: Acoustical Society of Japan

【 摘 要 】

References(12)To investigate the effect of wind turbine noise, a study project has been conducted in the three years from fiscal year 2010 under the sponsorship of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. One of the key aims in this study was to examine the effects of low-frequency components contained in wind turbine noise, and a series of auditory experiments have been conducted using an experimental facility composed of two adjacent rooms, where low-frequency sounds down to infrasound frequency range could be produced. As the first experiment using this facility, human hearing thresholds for pure tones were examined in the frequency range from 10 Hz to 200 Hz with 97 participants in a wide age range from 20 to 60 years.

【 授权许可】

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