Different effects of adding white noise on cognitive performance of sub-, normal and super-attentive school children.

Noise often has detrimental effects on performance. However, because of the phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR), auditory white noise (WN) can alter the "signal to noise" ratio and improve performance. The Moderate Brain Arousal (MBA) model postulates different levels of internal "...

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Main Authors: Suzannah K Helps, Susan Bamford, Edmund J S Sonuga-Barke, Göran B W Söderlund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4231104?pdf=render