TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1980//
TI  - Psychology of the scientist: XLI. continuous noise can degrade performance when using badly designed equipment: a case history
JO  - Perceptual and motor skills
A1  - Poulton, E. C.
SP  - 319
EP  - 330
VL  - 50
IS  - 1
N2  - An acclaimed important discovery was made in the early 1950s that noise degrades the performance of certain manual tasks directly, by a mechanism other than the masking of sounds. It now appears that this is not so. The unravelling of the mystery is described, together with some of the repercussions and implications.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0031-5125
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -