Chronic aircraft noise exposure is associated with lower reading comprehension in children, with a linear exposure–effect relationship¶
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Evidence · 2 studies · 2 reviewr2·q2–q3
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2018: baselines and conditions change
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q3 i? In the RANCH study, with SES controlled, aircraft noise showed no effect on sustained attention, working memory, or delayed story recall, but a linear exposure–effect relationship with decreasing reading comprehension. → Klatte M 2013
q2 i? Studies of chronic aircraft noise consistently associate high exposure with lower reading performance, though some are confounded by uncontrolled acute noise during testing and SES. → Klatte M 2013 (2)
Evidence¶
Klatte M 2013¶
Klatte M, Bergström K and Lachmann T (2013) Does noise affect learning? A short review on noise effects on cognitive performance in children. Front. Psychol. 4:578. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00578
q3 · i? · review · r2
The review reports the cross-sectional RANCH study (N = 2844) in the UK, the Netherlands, and Spain, with noise exposure as a continuous variable and SES controlled: "a linear exposure–effect relationship between aircraft noise and decreasing reading comprehension".
"With SES being controlled, the authors found no effect of aircraft noise exposure on sustained attention , working memory, and delayed recall of orally presented stories, but a linear exposure–effect relationship between aircraft noise and decreasing reading comprehension."
Klatte M 2013 (2)¶
Klatte M, Bergström K and Lachmann T (2013) Does noise affect learning? A short review on noise effects on cognitive performance in children. Front. Psychol. 4:578. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00578
q2 · i? · review · r2
The review's synthesis of quasi-experimental chronic-exposure studies: aircraft noise effects on attention and memory were mixed, "but exposure to aircraft noise was consistently associated with lower reading per- formance".
"chronic effects on children’s attention (Stansfeld et al., 2005; van Kempen et al., 2010; Belojevic et al., 2012 ) and mem- ory ( Haines et al., 2001; Matheson et al., 2010 ), but exposure to aircraft noise was consistently associated with lower reading per- formance"
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chronic-aircraft-noise-lower-reading-comprehension |
title |
Chronic aircraft noise exposure is associated with lower reading comprehension in children, with a linear exposure–effect relationship |
description |
Chronic aircraft noise exposure is associated with lower reading comprehension in children, with a linear exposure–effect relationship |
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review |
evidence_strength |
moderate |
newest_evidence |
2013 |
recheck_by |
2018 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-15 |
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2 — klatte-m-2013, klatte-m-2013-2 |
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