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Project Noise Sensitivity

2025/05/16

An extensive multilingual online data collection on individual noise sensitivity has been launched.

The project « Noise sensitivity: Systematic review of the concept and psychometric evaluation of its measurement » has entered into its third year. It is a three-way cooperation between Catherine Marquis-Favre (ENTPE, Lyon), Wolfgang Ellermeier (TU Darmstadt) and Karin Zimmer (Universität Vechta). The project is funded by Fondation pour l’Audition (FPA), a French foundation to promote research on hearing and hearing impairment. Our project (No. FPA RD 2022-6) started in May 2023 and is going to run until April 2026. Eunsung Song, M.S. (Architectural Civil Engineering) is the doctoral student working on the project at ENTPE.

The project investigates the concept of individual noise sensitivity by (a) analyzing the research literature through a systematic review, (b) conducting multilingual online surveys on noise sensitivity and related concepts, and (c) designing experiments to identify psychophysiological correlates of noise sensitivity.

Recently, Sang Hee Park, Ph.D., from the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) in Goyang, South Korea, has been affiliated with the project contributing to the joint research with her own resources and strengthening the international perspective of our work. Initial results of the project have been presented at these conferences:

  • Marquis-Favre, C., Ellermeier, W., Zimmer, K., Song, E., Park, S.H. (2024). Noise sensitivity: from systematic review to improving its measurement. In Proceedings of INTER-NOISE 24. Nantes, France (August 25-29).
  • Song, E., Zimmer, K., Marquis-Favre, C., Ellermeier, W., Park, S.H. (2024). Noise sensitivity: a systematic review of available instruments. In Proceedings of INTER-NOISE 24. Nantes, France (August 25-29).
  • Zimmer, K., Song, E., Ellermeier, W., Marquis-Favre, C. & Park, S.H. (2024). Noise sensitivity: Strategies for a systematic review. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hyperacusis and Misophonia, Warsaw, Poland (September 15-17).
  • Ellermeier, W., Zimmer, K., Song, E., Marquis-Favre, C. & Park, S.H. (2025). Assessing hyperacusis via questionnaire: Results from a large (N > 200) German-language online survey. In Proceedings of the joint DAS/DAGA Meeting on Acoustics, Copenhagen, Denmark (March 17-20).