Cognitive performance during irrelevant speech: Effects of speech intelligibility and office-task characteristics

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 307-316

  Jahncke, Helena ^a   Hongisto, Valtteri ^b   Virjonen, Petra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory distraction; Long term memory; Speech Transmission Index; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DESIGN; AUDITORY DISTRACTION; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; COGNITIVE TASK; INFORMATION SEARCH; LONG TERM MEMORY; NON-AUDITORY TASKS; OPEN-PLAN OFFICES; SEMANTIC LONG TERM MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX; TARGET LEVELS; TASK TYPE; WORKING MEMORIES; YIELD INCREASE;

OFFICE BUILDINGS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84870040118     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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