Conjoint Effect of Physical Stress and Noise Stress on Information Processing Performance and Cardiac Response

The conjoint effect of physical stress, induced by requiring subjects to run a treadmill, and 90 dB white noise stress was evaluated on information processing performance using a delayed digit recall subsidiary task measure and cardiac response. As anticipated, physical stress significantly raised heart rate, and noise stress significantly degraded information processing ability. The experiment failed to demonstrate a linearly additive relationship between noise and physical stress on either cardiac response or information processing performance.

[1]  A. F. Sanders,et al.  THE INFLUENCE OF NOISE ON TWO DISCRIMINATION TASKS , 1961 .

[2]  R. Davis,et al.  Autonomic and muscular responses, and their relation to simple stimuli. , 1955 .

[3]  D. Hebb.  Drives and the C.N.S. (conceptual nervous system). , 1955, Psychological review.

[4]  Davey Cp,et al.  Physical Exertion and Mental Performance , 1973 .

[5]  R B MALMO,et al.  Activation: a neuropsychological dimension. , 1959, Rassegna giuliana di medicina.

[6]  W. C. Lynch,et al.  Effects of isometric muscle tension on vasomotor activity and heart rate. , 1976, Psychophysiology.

[7]  R. Wilkinson,et al.  INTERACTION OF NOISE WITH KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION. , 1963, Journal of experimental psychology.

[8]  J. Singer,et al.  Psychic cost of adaptation to an environmental stressor. , 1969, Journal of personality and social psychology.

[9]  William G. Steele,et al.  Cardiac response to mental arithmetic under quiet and white noise distraction , 1968 .

[10]  R. Plutchik,et al.  The effects of high intensity intermittent sound on performance, feeling, and physiology. , 1959, Psychological bulletin.

[11]  D. Gibson,et al.  Cardiovascular change and mental task gradient , 1966 .

[12]  Lawrence R. Zeitlin,et al.  Research Note: Subsidiary Task Techniques of Digit Generation and Digit Recall as Indirect Measures of Operator Loading , 1975 .

[13]  C P Davey,et al.  Physical exertion and mental performance. , 1973, Ergonomics.

[14]  D. C. Glass,et al.  Reappraisal of the relationship between noise and human performance by means of a subsidiary task measure. , 1970, The Journal of applied psychology.

[15]  C. G. Costello,et al.  Heart rates during performance of a mental task under noise conditions , 1967 .

[16]  A. Steinschneider,et al.  Auditory sensitivity in the infant: effect of intensity on cardiac and motor responsivity. , 1966, Child development.

[17]  J. R. Simon,et al.  Differential effect of noise on tasks of varying complexity. , 1968, The Journal of applied psychology.