Psychology of the Scientist: XLI. Continuous Noise Can Degrade Performance When Using Badly Designed Equipment: A Case History
Emily C. Poulton · Perceptual and Motor Skills · 1980
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.