Long reverberation time decreases recall of spoken information

Building Acoustics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 301-311

  Ljung, Robert ^a   Kjellberg, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Recall; Reverberation Time; Speech Intelligibility; Working Memory

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; RECALL; REVERBERATION TIME; SENTENCE RECOGNITION; SPOKEN WORDS; WORD LISTS; WORKING MEMORY;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 80053601174     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/135101009790291273     Document Type: Article

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