NCT05679869

Effects of Natural Sounds on Attention Restoration in Virtual Reality

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Nanyang Technological University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to examine whether listening to natural sounds in a noisy virtual reality environment compared to no natural sounds influences physiological markers.

Detailed description

The investigators hypothesize that listening to natural sounds has restorative effects on attention by supporting greater use of involuntary attention. This generates the prediction that exposure to natural sounds in the context of a noisy environment will have greater restorative effects on attention (i.e., physiological) as compared to the control group (exposed to noise only). Individual differences (i.e., age, gender, caffeine and food intake, body mass index, skin temperature, noise sensitivity, sleep quality, baseline physiology and behavioural performance) will be examined and accounted for.

Conditions

• Cognitive Fatigue
• Mental Fatigue
• Behavioral Performance
• Heart Rate Variability
• Working Memory

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Masking Sound	Prerecorded environmental noise and masking sounds played from headphones
OTHER	No masking sound	Prerecorded environmental noise but no masking sounds played from headphones

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-06
• Primary completion: 2023-03-15
• Completion: 2023-05-15
• First posted: 2023-01-11
• Last updated: 2023-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore