The effect of sound levels on attention deficit

Author

Aminuddin, M. ; Mustaffa, I.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Durian Tunggal, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

7-8 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

134

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of sound level on attention deficit by examining the evoked response potentials, i.e., N1 peak. Three sound levels were used as stimulation level i.e., Medium (control), Most Comfortable Loud and Uncomfortable loud. In 10 subjects, the results showed that the reduction of N1 wave is getting lesser as the sound level increases. This shows that less attention deficit at high level of sound. The finding could be used for a basis of developing an awareness system or a diagnostic for mental disorder such schizophrenia.

Keywords

auditory evoked potentials; bioacoustics; electroencephalography; loudness; medical disorders; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; N1 wave reduction; attention deficit; diagnostics; electroencephalography; evoked response potentials; medium comfortable loud; mental disorder; most comfortable loud; schizophrenia; sound level effect; uncomfortable loud; Welding; N1 peak reduction; attention deficit; evoked response potential; neurophysiological measures; sound level;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation, Communications, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME), 2013 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bandung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1649-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICI-BME.2013.6698479

Filename

6698479