The
Effects of White Noise and Gender on Mental Task
A. Panchon & F.F. Terol |
Different
perfomance patterns between genders were obtained from 48 university
students (24 women and 24 men) analysing the results of two tests
(test of complex responses and test of arithmetic calculus) carried
out with superimposed white noise (95 dBA). The time analysis of
the arithmetic test shows that women have a very short adaptation
time to sonorous stress; on the contrary men seem to need several
minutes to adapt to high noise conditions.
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