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It is my pleasure to speak at this webinar: assessing and addressing noise as a public health risk

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May 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
markersofpollution.bsky.social
Impressions from this week's 15th #ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem!

Our highlight, of course, has to be the MARKOPOLO symposium with Andreas Daiber, Martin Röösli, and Adelina Rogowska-Wrzesinska 🙌

#MARKOPOLO #NoiseExposure #MarkersOfPollution
June 19, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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A new cogsci paper examining human responses to wind turbine noise, highlighting that many of the stress responses seen IRL tend to be socially mediated (eg, 'wind turbine syndrome').

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Despite their alignment with sustainable development principles, wind farms often provoke controversy and misinformation, particularly regarding the noise they produce and their potential impact on human functioning. Concerns have been raised about the possible effects of this noise on irritation levels, psychological well-being, and cognitive functioning. Yet, there is still a lack of controlled, comprehensive studies that could substantiate these concerns. Here, a cognitive neuroscience approach is proposed to experimentally and multifactorial explore wind turbine noise’s impact on various mental functions. We used recordings from an actual wind turbine to investigate its effects on the dynamics of brain waves crucial for complex cognitive tasks, as well as on sustained attention and inductive reasoning in healthy adult volunteers. We also tested the subjective evaluation of the stress induced by wind turbine noise and the annoyance it causes. Control conditions included silence and road traffic noise (participants were blind to the nature of acoustic variables). The findings of this pilot study reveal that short-term exposure to wind turbine noise with a sound pressure level corresponding to the real-world situation (i.e., 65 dB SPL) does not adversely affect any of the examined cognitive functions and is not perceived as more stressful or bothersome than road traffic noise. Furthermore, we utilized various psychological scales and found that even tendencies towards rumination or reduced capacity for reflection and ambiguity tolerance did not lead to maladaptive perceptions of wind turbine noise and, therefore, to a state that might indirectly influence mental functioning. Although these results cannot be generalized, they support the concept that the interlinkage between exposure to wind turbine noise and human cognitive functioning is not a cause-and-effect relationship. We discuss the mediating role of socially constructed beliefs about wind farms in this inte… However, these null results do not negate the potential adverse influence of such noise on human brain processes or the fact that psychological diversity plays no role here. Instead, they indicate that under the conditions proposed in our approach, which are blind to the nature of the acoustic variable and thus detached from the social meanings attributed to wind turbine noise, such effects do not occur. It should be noted that, based on the ICBEN scale results, 14 out of 15 participants exposed to wind turbine noise rated their annoyance as either 0 (n = 4), 1 (n = 3), 3 (n = 2), or 4 (n = 5), indicating minimal disturbance, even in the presence of maladaptive or neurotic psychological traits. Only one individual rated their annoyance as high (at 7), despite a low score for rumination, but with low ambiguity tolerance and reflectivity. This implies that 93% of participants did not find wind turbine noise intrusive (Clark et al., 2021; Fields et al., 2001). As per previous studies, noise would negatively impact the neural dynamics of complex cognitive processes, sustained attention, and inductive reasoning only in case of high annoyance (Astuti et al., 2023; Muller et al., 2023; Pieper et al., 2021). The low annoyance (as well as stress) ratings observed in our exploration would be attributed to the fact that participants were unaware of the nature of the sounds they were exposed to (the procedure was blind, and no volunteers identified experimental sounds as wind turbine noise). Thus, they did not evaluate the noise from the perspective of socially constructed assertions or as a consequence of wind turbine syndrome mechanisms (Clark et al., 2020; Pierpont, 2009; Schaffer et al., 2016; Smith et al., 2020). As a result, they did not experience the nocebo effect (Crichton and Petrie, 2015), and we did not observe any impact of wind turbine noise on their cognitive functioning. This suggests that the sound pressure level of the wind turbine noise used in our study, i.e…
March 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
martinroosli.bsky.social
🎉 #ICBEN 2026 has started this morning in Copenhagen ❗
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦

Eulalia Peris from the @eea.europa.eu gives an insightful talk about Noise in Europe. Did you know how little noise is regulated (END) compared to air pollution (AAQD)?
Quite outrageous.
June 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
martinroosli.bsky.social
A very nice review identifying research gaps in exposure–response at low noise levels. It presents a stepwise framework for noise exposure in studies of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Also a hot topic this week at #ICBEN conference.
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Integrating noise as a risk factor in studies of Alzheimer's disease and dementia: Guidance for epidemiologic research
Noise exposure is increasingly recognized as a modifiable environmental risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), yet its integration into epidemiologic research remains limit...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM
gigazine.net
「騒音」は単なる迷惑どころかさまざまな健康被害をもたらすことが研究で明らかに
https://gigazine.net/news/20230614-noise-effect-health/
「騒音」は単なる迷惑どころかさまざまな健康被害をもたらすことが研究で明らかに
工事の音や車のエンジン音、ペットの鳴き声、サイレンなどは時に騒音とみなされます。また、騒音による被害は活動の妨害や社会的な影響だけでなく、頭痛やめまい、ノイローゼなどの健康被害につながると考えられていますが、「騒音の生物学的影響に関する国際委員会(ICBEN)」は「騒音によってもたらされる健康的な被害は過小評価されています」と主張し、これまで知られている以上に健康への影響が大きいものであると指摘しています。
gigazine.net
June 13, 2023 at 3:00 PM
hearinghealthfn.bsky.social
"This narrative review, presented at the 14th ICBEN Congress in 2023, examines a selection of research published between 2020 and 2022, focusing on hearing loss, tinnitus, and balance issues associated with noise exposure." journals.lww.com/thehearingjo... via @hearingtracker.com #keeplistening
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: 2020-2022 Research Highlights : The Hearing Journal
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journals.lww.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM