Comparing Auditory Stimuli for Sleep Enhancement: Mimicking a Sleeping Situation

Leminen, Miika; Ahonen, Lauri; Gröhn, Matti; Huotilainen, Minna; Paunio, Tiina; Virkkala, Jussi

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Comparing Auditory Stimuli for Sleep Enhancement: Mimicking a Sleeping Situation

dc.contributor.author	Leminen, Miika
dc.contributor.author	Ahonen, Lauri
dc.contributor.author	Gröhn, Matti
dc.contributor.author	Huotilainen, Minna
dc.contributor.author	Paunio, Tiina
dc.contributor.author	Virkkala, Jussi
dc.contributor.corporatename	International Community for Auditory Display
dc.contributor.corporatename	Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. Brain Work Research Center
dc.contributor.corporatename	Työterveyslaitos (Finland). Department of Occupational Medicine
dc.date.accessioned	2014-08-08T14:59:30Z
dc.date.available	2014-08-08T14:59:30Z
dc.date.issued	2014-06
dc.description	Presented at the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2014), June 22-25, 2014, New York, NY.	en_US
dc.description	Presented at the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2014), June 22-25, 2014, New York, NY.
dc.description.abstract	Recently, two research groups have reported that the depth and/or duration of Slow Wave Sleep (SWS) can be increased by playing short sounds with approximately 1 second intervals during or prior to SWS. These studies have used sounds with neutral or negative valence: sinusoidal I -kHz tones or short pink noise bursts. Since music therapy research shows beneficial effects of pleasant, natural sounds and music, the sounds in the experiments may have been suboptimal. Thus, we aimed at choosing optimal sounds such that they could be used in increasing the depth or duration of SWS taking into account both the need of fast rise times, short duration, and pleasantness. Here we report results of a listening test mimicking a sleeping situation in which the subjects compared how pleasant, relaxing, and image-evoking they found 3 natural, short instrument sounds with fast rise times compared to a short pink noise burst used in the previous experiments. The natural sounds were selected from our previous listening test as the most pleasant ones. The results will be used as the basis for choosing the optimal sounds for the sleep studies.	en_US
dc.embargo.terms	null	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Leminen, M., Ahonen, L., Gröhn, M., Huotilainen, M., Paunio, T., & Virkkala, J. "Comparing Auditory Stimuli for Sleep Enhancement: Mimicking a Sleeping Situation". Presented at the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2014), June 22-25, 2014, New York, NY.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52132
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.publisher.original	International Community for Auditory Display
dc.publisher.original	International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD)
dc.relation.ispartofseries	International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)
dc.rights	This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License.
dc.subject	Auditory display	en_US
dc.subject	Neural activity	en_US
dc.subject	Optimal sounds	en_US
dc.subject	Sleep studies	en_US
dc.subject	Slow wave sleep	en_US
dc.subject	Sounds	en_US
dc.subject	Valence	en_US
dc.title	Comparing Auditory Stimuli for Sleep Enhancement: Mimicking a Sleeping Situation	en_US
dc.type	Text
dc.type.genre	Proceedings
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