著者

Tomoharu Ishikawa Muneto Tatsumoto Katuhiro Maki Minoru Mitsui Hiroshi Hasegawa Koichi Hirata

出版者

The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.2206-18, (Released:2019-02-01)

参考文献数

33

被引用文献数

9

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Objectives Sound hypersensitivity is highly comorbid with migraine headaches. To elucidate the pathogenic mechanism of migraine attacks, we must first identify the types of everyday environmental sounds they perceive as unpleasant and clarify the acoustic properties of such sounds. This study aimed to clarify the true nature of "noise," i.e. everyday sounds perceived as unpleasant by migraineurs, by evaluating their subjective comfort/discomfort in response to several sounds commonly heard in everyday life. Methods Participants were presented with 20 environmental sounds they would likely hear daily. Subjects rated the pleasantness/unpleasantness of each stimulus using a nine-step scale. Patients We recruited 50 adults with migraine headaches (46 women, 4 men) and 50 healthy controls (35 women, 15 men). Results Migraineurs provided statistically significantly lower (more unpleasant) ratings to ambulance sirens, police car sirens, and railroad crossing bells than did controls. Our analysis also investigated the acoustic characteristics associated with higher rating gaps between the two groups. Greater divergence in ratings for the same stimulus was associated with less power (smaller amplitude envelope) and slower temporal variation in signals in the 400-Hz band. Conclusion We identified specific signal components associated with different subjective (un) pleasantness scores between migraineurs and healthy adults, which may lead to the elucidation of the pathogenic mechanism underlying migraine attacks triggered by sound.

著者

Shigeaki Amano Hideki Kawahara Hideki Banno Katuhiro Maki Kimiko Yamakawa

出版者

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

雑誌

Acoustical Science and Technology (ISSN:13463969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.43, no.2, pp.105-112, 2022-03-01 (Released:2022-03-01)

参考文献数

30

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A perception experiment and analyses were conducted to clarify the acoustic features of pop-out voice. Speech items pronounced by 779 native Japanese speakers were prepared for stimuli by mixing them with a babble noise that consisted of overlapping short sentences spoken by 10 Japanese speakers. Using a 5-point scale, 12 Japanese participants rated the pop-out score of the speech items listened using headphones. The scores and acoustic features of the speech items were investigated using correlation analysis and principal coordinate analysis. It was revealed that the pop-out score relates to the acoustic features such as overall intensity, relative intensity in the high-frequency range, fundamental frequency, dynamic feature of the spectrum, and a spectrum shape in high frequency. The results suggest that these are crucial acoustic features for the pop-out voice.