Electrodermal activity and subjective annoyance in speech recognition tasks with noise as stress indicators.
Objectives: Noise can cause changes in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), which can be monitored through electrodermal activity (EDA). Our aim was to investigate electrodermal activity and annoyance during speech recognition tasks with competitive noise. Design and Study Sample: C...
| Published in: | International Journal of Audiology Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 46 - 54 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=194088942&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 194088942 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14992027 JW2 jtl: International Journal of Audiology issn: 14992027 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan2026 vid: 65 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 194088942 185411905 194088942 194088942 10.1080/14992027.2025.2508733 194088942 ppf: 46 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Electrodermal activity and subjective annoyance in speech recognition tasks with noise as stress indicators. aug: au: Peixoto Perini, Beatriz Masullo, Massimiliano Samelli, Alessandra Giannella affil: Department of Physical Therapy, Speech-Language-Hearing Pathology Sciences, and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine (FMUSP), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil sug: subj: Sympathetic Nervous System Physiology Speech Perception Task Performance and Analysis Noise Adverse Effects Skin Physiology Stress, Physiological Human Cross Sectional Studies Adolescence Adult Descriptive Statistics Analysis of Variance Hearing Screening Post Hoc Analysis Data Analysis Software Sensitivity and Specificity Female Male Audiometry, Pure-Tone Funding Source Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Female Male ab: Objectives: Noise can cause changes in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), which can be monitored through electrodermal activity (EDA). Our aim was to investigate electrodermal activity and annoyance during speech recognition tasks with competitive noise. Design and Study Sample: Cross-sectional study with forty normal-hearing adults. The EDA was monitored during relaxation in silence and three recognition tasks with monosyllables, in silence and with competitive pink noise at 65 dBA and 75 dBA. After noise conditions, a subjective scale of annoyance was administered. Results: There were significant differences in the latency of the first EDA signal (p < 0.001), number of EDA peaks (p < 0.001) and percentage of correct answers in the speech recognition task (p < 0.001) when comparing the conditions with and without noise. Regarding the subjective scale, there was a significant difference between the two noise conditions, with higher annoyance scores for the condition with the highest noise level (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Our results suggest that the presence of competitive noise (and higher noise levels) negatively impacts the speech recognition task and increases EDA due to greater activation of the SNS, as well as more intense noise levels causing greater annoyance, possibly resulting from higher levels of stress and listening effort. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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