Participant in the following projects in the Man and Noise network:

Staffan Hygge's main research interests include the effects of acute and chronic noise exposure on memory and learning in children and adults. He has been a part of such laboratory and field studies in Sweden and internationally.

Recent larger and externally funded research projects
2011-13 Formas - The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning - The Burden of Noise - Rethinking criteria for acceptable acoustical conditions in the classroom.

2011-13 Vetenskapsrådet - The Swedish Research Council - What is the nature of working memory capacity? Towards answering a fundamental question in cognitive science.

2008-10 AFA Försäkring – AFA Insurance - Noise in open plan offices - Experiments and intervention studies with normal hearing and hearing impaired subjects. Buller i kontorslandskap - Experiment och interventionsstudier med normalhörande och hörselnedsatta personer.

2008-10 Vetenskapsrådet - The Swedish Research Council - The theoretical underpinnings of noise as an impediment to learning and memory for children in school - Den teoretiska grundvalen för buller som ett hinder för inlärning och minne hos skolbarn.

Publications:

Kjellberg, A. & Hygge, S. (2011). Ljudmiljöns betydelse för klassrummet som lärmiljö. I L. Jensen (Ed.,) Lärandets grunder – teorier och perspektiv. Studentlitteratur

Hygge S (2011) Noise and cognition in children. In: J.O. Nriagu (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Volume 4, pp. 146–151 Burlington: Elsevier

Hygge, S. (2011) Environmental noise and cognitive impairment in children. (In press). In L. Fritschi (Ed.,) Burden of Disease from Environmental Noise - Quantification of healthy life years lost in Europe. WHO Regionl Office for Europe

Hygge, S. & Kjellberg, A. (2010). Editorial commentary – Special issue on noise, memory and learning. Noise & Health, 12, 199.

Matheson, M., Clark, C., Martin, R., van Kempen, E., Haines, M., Lopez-Barrio, I, Hygge, S., & Stansfeld, S. (2010). The effects of road traffic and aircraft noise exposure on children’s episodic memory: The RANCH Project. Noise & Health, 12, 244-254.

Stansfeld, S., Hygge, S., Clark, C., & Alfred, T. (2010). Night time aircraft noise and children’s cognitive performance in the Munich and RANCH studies. Noise & Health, 12, 255-262.

Sörqvist, P., Halin, N., & Hygge, S. (2010). Individual differences in susceptibility to the effects of speech on reading comprehension. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 24, 67-76.

Ljung, R., Sörqvist, P., & Hygge, S. (2009). Effects of road traffic noise and irrelevant speech on children’s reading and mathematical performance. Noise & Health, 11, 194-198

Hygge, S. (2007). Noise: Effects on Health. In S. Ayers, A. Baum, C. McManus, S. Newman, K. Wallston, J. Weinman & R. West (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of psychology, health and medicine (2nd ed., pp. 137-141). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University.

Evans, G.W., & Hygge, S. (2007). Noise and cognitive performance in children and adults. In L. M. Luxon & D. Prasher (Eds.), Noise and its effects (pp. 549-566). Chichester: John Wiley.

Enmarker, I., Boman, E., & Hygge, S. (2006). Structural equation models of memory performance across noise conditions and age groups. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 47, 449-460.

Hygge, S. (2005). Bullers effekter på människor [Noise effects on people]. In M. Johansson & M. Küller, M. (Eds.), Svensk miljöpsykologi. [Swedish environmental psychology]. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Boman, E., Enmarker, I., & Hygge, S. (2005). Strength of noise effects on memory as a function of noise source and age. Noise & Health, 7, 11-26.

Stansfeld, S.A., Berglund, B., Clark, C., Lopez-Barrio, I., Fischer, P., Öhrström, E.,Haines, M.M., Head, J., Hygge, S., van Kamp, I., & Berry, B.F. (2005). Aircraft and road traffic noise and children’s cognition and health: A cross-national study. Lancet, 365, 1942-1949.

Hygge, S. (2005). Miljöpsykologi [Environmental psychology]. In P. Hwang, I. Lundberg, J. Rönnberg & A-C Smedler (Eds.), Vår tids psykologi. [Psychology of our time]. Stockholm: Natur & Kultur.

Hygge, S. (2003). Classroom experiments on the effects of different noise sources and sound levels on long-term recall and recognition in children. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 895-914.

Hygge, S., Boman, E., & Enmarker, I. (2003). The effects of road traffic noise and meaningful irrelevant speech on different memory systems. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 44, 13-21.

Hygge, S., Evans, G.W., & Bullinger, M. (2002). A prospective study of some effects of aircraft noise on cognitive performance in school children. Psychological Science, 13, 469-474.

Knez, I., & Hygge, S. (2002). Irrelevant speech and indoor lighting: Effects on cognitive performance and self-reported affect. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 709-718.