Effects of reverberation time on the cognitive load in speech communication: Theoretical considerations

Noise and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 11-21

  Kjellberg, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Reverberation time; Speech comprehension; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOOD; NOISE; PHONETICS; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 10644293807     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. American National Standards Institute (2002). ANSI/ASA S12.60-2002. Acoustical Performance Criteria, Design Requirements, and Guidelines for Schools. Washington American National Standard Institute
2. Andersson, U. and Lyxell, B. (1999). Phonological deterioration in adults with an acquired severe hearing impairment. Scandinavian Audiology 27 Suppl. 49: 93-100
3. Baddeley, A. D. (1986). Working memory. Oxford Clarendon Press
4. Baddeley, A. D. (2001). Is working memory still working. American Psychologist 56: 851-864
5. Berg, S. (2001). Impact of reduced reverberation time on sound-induced arousals during sleep. Sleep 24: 289-92.
6. Bradley, J. S. (1986). Predictors of speech intelligibility in rooms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 80: 837-845
7. Bradley, J. S. (1986). Speech intelligibility studies in classrooms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 80: 846-854
8. Carter, N., Henderson, R., Lal, S., Hart, M., Booth, S. and Hunyor, S. (2002). Cardiovascular and autonomic response to environmental noise during sleep in night shift workers. Sleep 25: 457-464
9. Cohen, S. (1978). Environmental load and the allocation of attention. In Advances in environmental psychology. Baum, A., Singer, J. E. and Valins, S., eds. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N J. pp 1-29
10. Cohen, S., Evans, G. W., Stokols, D. and Krantz, D. S. (1986). Behavior, health, and environmental stress. New York Plenum
11. Crandell, C. C. and Smaldino, J. J. (2000). Acoustical modifications for the classroom. Volta Review 101: 33-46
12. Culling, J. F., Hodder, K. I. and Toh, C. Y. (2003). Effects of reverberation on perceptual segregation of competing voices. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 114: 2871-2876
13. Daneman, M. and Carpenter, P. A. (1980). Individual differences in working memory and reading. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 19: 450-466
14. Darwin, C. J. and Hukin, R. W. (2000). Effects of reverberation on spatial, prosodic, and vocal-tract size cues to selective attention. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108: 335-342
15. Ellis, H. C. and Ashbrook, P. W. (1991). The "state" of mood and memory research: a selective review. In Mood and memory. Kuiken, D., ed. Sage, Newbury Park. pp 1-21
16. Finitzo-Hiber, T. and Tillman, T. W. (1978). Room acoustic effects on monosyllabic word discrimination ability for normal hearing and hearing impaired children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 21: 440-458
17. Helfer, K. S. and Wilber, L. A. (1990). Hearing loss, aging, and speech perception in reverberation and noise. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 33: 149-155
18. Hodgson, M. and Nosal, E. M. (2002). Effect of noise and occupancy on optimal reverberation times for speech intelligibility in classrooms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111: 931-9.
19. Hällgren, M., Larsby, B., Lyxell, B. and Arlinger, S. (2001). Evaluation of a cognitive test battery in young and elderly normal-hearing and hearing-impaired persons. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 12: 357-370
20. Isen, A. M. (1987). Positive affect, cognitive processes and social behaviour. In Advances in experimental social psychology. Berkowitz, L., ed. Academic, New York. pp 203-253
21. Isen, A. M. (2002). Missing in action in the AIM: Positive affect's facilitation of cognitive flexibility, innovation, and problem solving. Psychological Inquiry 13: 57-65
22. Isen, A. M. (2003). Positive affect as a source of human strength. In A psychology of human strengths: Fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology. Aspinwall, L. G. and Staudinger, U. M., eds. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. pp 179-195
23. Kjellberg, A. and Sköldström, B. (1991). Noise annoyance during the performance of different non-auditory tasks. Perceptual and Motor Skills 73: 39-49
24. Lunner, T. (2003). Cognitive function in relation to hearing aid use. International Journal of Audiology 42, Supplement 1: 49-58
25. Lyxell, B., Andersson, U., Arlinger, S. and Harder, H. (1998). Phonological representation and speech understanding with cochlear implants in deafened adults. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 39: 175-179
26. Nabelek, A. K. and Donahue, D. M. (1984). Perception of consonants in reverberation by native and non-native listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 71:
27. Nabelek, A. K. and Robinson, P. (1992). Monaural and binaural speech perception in reverberation for listeners of various ages. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 56: 628-639
28. Oaksford, M., Morris, F., Grainger, B. and Williams, J. M. G. (1996). Mood, reasoning, and central executive processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning, Memory and Cognition 22: 476-492
29. Oswald, C. J. P., Tremblay, S. and Jones, D. M. (2000). Disruption of comprehension by the meaning of irrelevant sound. Memory 8: 345-350
30. Payton, K. L., Uchanski, R. M. and Braida, L. D. (1994). Intelligibility of conversational and clear speech in noise and reverberation for listeners with normal and impaired hearing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 95: 1581-1592
31. Pichora-Fuller, M. K. (2003). Cognitive aging and auditory information processing. International Journal of. Audiology 42 (Supplement 2): S26-S32
32. Pichora-Fuller, M. K. and Souza, P. A. (2003). Effects of aging on auditory processing of speech. International Journal of. Audiology 42 (Supplement 2): S11-S16
33. Rossing, T. D. (1990). The science of sound. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley
34. Rönnberg, J. (1995). What makes a skilled speechreader? In Profound deafness and speech communication. Plant, G. and Spens, K.-E., eds. Whurr, London. pp 393-416
35. Seibert, P. S. E., Henry C (1991). Irrelevant thoughts, emotional mood states, and cognitive task. Cognition and Emotion 19: 507-513
36. Smith, A. P. (1989). Noise, confidence ratings and recognition memory. In Contemporary ergonomics 1989. Megaw, E. D., ed. Taylor and Francis, London. pp 494-499
37. Takata, Y. and Nabelek, A. K. (1990). English consonant recognition in noise and in reverberation by Japanese and American listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 88: 663-666
38. Västfjäll, D., Larsson, P. and Kleiner, M. (2002). Emotion and auditory virtual environments: affect-based judgments of music reproduced with virtual reverberation times. CyberPsychology and Behavior 5: 19-32.