All Outputs (164)

The effects of classroom noise on the reading comprehension of adolescents (2019)
Journal Article
Connolly, D., Dockrell, J., Shield, B., Conetta, R., Mydlarz, C., & Cox, T. (2019). The effects of classroom noise on the reading comprehension of adolescents. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 145(1), 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5087126

An investigation has been carried out to examine the impact of different levels of classroom noise on adolescents’ performance on reading and vocabulary-learning tasks. A total of 976 English high school pupils (564 aged 11 to 13 years and 412 aged 1... Read More about The effects of classroom noise on the reading comprehension of adolescents.

How Science Works KS3 (2019)
Data

CPD and curriculum resources for four videos in Youtube playlist https://youtu.be/63n8MjHLSg8

Investigations into helping asthma sufferers, practical and enquiry skills, respiration, biology.
Trying to reduce the carbon footprint of the UK music... Read More about How Science Works KS3.

Blog about the Pillars of Wisdom project (2018)
Data

a blog describing the project by collaborator Prof Trevor Cox

Perceptual audio evaluation of media device orchestration using the multi-stimulus ideal profile method (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., Cox, T., Zacharov, N., & Pike, C. (2018, October). Perceptual audio evaluation of media device orchestration using the multi-stimulus ideal profile method. Presented at Audio Engineering Society 145th Convention, New York, USA

The evaluation of object-based audio reproduction methods in a real-world context remains a challenge as it is difficult to separate the effects of the reproduction system from the effects of the audio mix rendered for that system. This is often comp... Read More about Perceptual audio evaluation of media device orchestration using the multi-stimulus ideal profile method.

Improving intelligibility prediction under informational masking using an auditory saliency model (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Tang, Y., & Cox, T. (2018, September). Improving intelligibility prediction under informational masking using an auditory saliency model. Presented at International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Aveiro, Portugal

The reduction of speech intelligibility in noise is usually dominated by energetic masking (EM) and informational masking (IM).
Most state-of-the-art objective intelligibility measures (OIM) estimate intelligibility by quantifying EM. Few measures m... Read More about Improving intelligibility prediction under informational masking using an auditory saliency model.

Making Sense of Sounds: data (manmade) (2018)
Data

Data and scripts for the engine taxonomy, category formation analysis, and plots

Making Sense of Sounds: valence and arousal scores (2018)
Data

Valence and arousal scores for affect-judgments taken from Warriner et al. (2013). Note that the descriptive words 'howling', 'strained', 'threatening', and 'unsettled' were not included in Warriner et al. (2013) so the scores for 'howl', 'strain', '... Read More about Making Sense of Sounds: valence and arousal scores.

Making Sense of Sounds: synonym log (2018)
Data

Log of cases where descriptive words were identified as synonyms of one another.

Making Sense of Sounds: stimuli (soundscape / top-level) (2018)
Digital Artefact

Making Sense of Sounds: stimuli (nature) (2018)
Digital Artefact

Nature stimuli

Making Sense of Sounds: stimuli (manmade) (2018)
Digital Artefact

Manmade stimuli

Making Sense of Sounds: stimuli (engines) (2018)
Digital Artefact

Engine stimuli

Making Sense of Sounds: stimuli (dogs) (2018)
Data

Dog stimuli

Making Sense of Sounds: demographics (2018)
Data

Demographic data

Making Sense of Sounds: data (word-types) (2018)
Data

Data and script for analysing word-types for each type of sound and level of the taxonomy

Making Sense of Sounds: data (top level / soundscapes) (2018)
Data

Data and scripts for the top-level taxonomy, category formation analysis, and plots

Making Sense of Sounds: data (nature) (2018)
Data

Data and scripts for the nature taxonomy, category formation analysis, and plots

Making Sense of Sounds: data (engines) (2018)
Data

Data and scripts for the engine taxonomy, category formation analysis, and plots

Making Sense of Sounds: data (dogs) (2018)
Data

Data and scripts for the dog taxonomy, category formation analysis, and plots

Sound categories : category formation and evidence-based taxonomies (2018)
Journal Article

Five evidence-based taxonomies of everyday sounds frequently reported in the soundscape literature have been generated. An online sorting and category-labelling method that elicits rather than prescribes descriptive words was used. A total of N=242 p... Read More about Sound categories : category formation and evidence-based taxonomies.