Effect of birdsongs and traffic noise on pedestrian walking speed during different seasons

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://peerj.com/articles/7711/" target="_blank" >https://peerj.com/articles/7711/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7711" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.7711</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effect of birdsongs and traffic noise on pedestrian walking speed during different seasons

Original language description

any studies have explored the effects of auditory and visual stimuli on the perception of an environment. However, there is a lack of investigations examining direct behavioral responses to noise in specific environments. In this study, a behavioral variable, walking speed, was analyzed, as a response to the sounds and visual features of a specific environment. The study examined the effects of birdsongs compared to traffic noise on walking speed in a real outdoor urban environment. It was supposed that the interaction of audition and vision in the perception of an environment may also be shaped by the perceived congruence of the visual and auditory features of the environment. The participants (N = 87 and N = 65), young university students, walked along a 1.8-km urban route. They listened to a soundtrack of crowded city noise or birdsongs, or they walked in the real outdoor environment without listening to any acoustic stimuli. To investigate the effect of the congruence between acoustic and visual stimuli, the experiment was conducted in two different seasons (fall and spring). The results did not show significant differences between the crowded city noise condition and the real outdoor condition. Listening to the soundtrack with birdsongs decreased walking speed, but this effect was significant only in the experiment conducted in spring. These findings can be explained in terms of the congruence between the sounds and the visual environment. The findings raise questions regarding the restorative function of urban greenery during different seasons.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PeerJ

ISSN

2167-8359

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1.10.2019

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

"Article Number: e7711"

UT code for WoS article

000488492500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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