The Effects of Noise on Sleep

Our auditory system is extremely important during sleep. If you put people in the lap for the first night and expose them to aircraft noise, they wake up with a much higher probability. And than you see across the study nightsthat they start to respond with a lower probability. So there is certainly what we call habituation. That is, people who move into an area that is noisy and they haven't been exposed to noise,. There's certainly some degree of habituation. We actually were able to show this in our laboratory and field studies, the effects of aircraft noise on sleep. It makes sense tat subject wakes up with a very high probability, just making sure that this is not a

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