Poor listening conditions impair memory for intelligible lectures: Implications for acoustic classroom standards

Building Acoustics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 257-265

  Ljung, Robert ^a   Sörqvist, Patrik ^a   Kjellberg, Anders ^a   Green, Anne Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acoustic standards; Broadband noise; Classrooms; Memory; Reverberation time; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BROADBAND NOISE; CLASSROOMS; IN-BUILDINGS; REVERBERATION TIME; SPEECH SIGNALS; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 77957555990     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/135101009789877031     Document Type: Article

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