The contribution of sound source characteristics in the assessment of urban soundscapes

By C. Lavandier, Boris Defreville. 2006

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Stress Recovery during Exposure to Nature Sound and Environmental Noise (2010, background): “Soundscape research has shown that natural sounds are typically perceived as pleasant and technological noise as unpleasant components of the sound environment [13-15].”
Factors influencing the sound preference in urban open spaces (2010, background): “preference evaluation, namely the evaluation of foreground sounds [10-12, 21-22].”
Soundscape descriptors and a conceptual framework for developing predictive soundscape models (2016, background): “Lavandier and Defréville (2006) defined a descriptor, the ‘unpleasantness of sound,’ using sound levels and the relative duration of categories of sound sources (e.”
The effects of expectation on the perception of soundscapes (2014, background): “Existing soundscape studies have investigated subjective response to soundscapes using a number of techniques, including qualitative interviews, rating scales and questionnaires in the field [2, 3, 4, 5] and by the playback of field recordings in the laboratory [6, 7].”