How indoor environmental quality affects occupants' cognitive functions: A systematic review

C Wang, F Zhang, J Wang, JK Doyle, PA Hancock… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cognitive functions refer to the set of brain-based skills to execute tasks of various difficulty
levels. As people spend substantial time indoors, the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) …

The effect of the acoustic environment of learning spaces on students' learning efficiency: A review

C Liu, Q Zang, J Li, X Pan, H Dai, W Gao - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have demonstrated that the significant impact of sound on people's
performance, especially in mental and physical health. With a focus on students' learning …

Open-plan office noise: Cognitive performance and restoration

H Jahncke, S Hygge, N Halin, AM Green… - Journal of Environmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
The aim of the present study was to investigate cognitive, emotional, and physiological
effects of two open-plan office noise conditions (high noise: 51 LAeq and low noise: 39 …

The impact of the classroom built environment on student perceptions and learning

GC Marchand, NM Nardi, D Reynolds… - Journal of Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
The aim of this 2× 2 experimental study was to investigate whether the combined
environmental factors of light, sound, and temperature in a classroom built environment set …

Working memory capacity as controlled attention in tactical decision making

PA Furley, D Memmert - Journal of Sport and Exercise …, 2012 - journals.humankinetics.com
The controlled attention theory of working memory capacity (WMC, Engle 2002) suggests
that WMC represents a domain free limitation in the ability to control attention and is …

Auditory distraction during reading: A Bayesian meta-analysis of a continuing controversy

MR Vasilev, JA Kirkby, B Angele - … on Psychological Science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Everyday reading occurs in different settings, such as on the train to work, in a busy
cafeteria, or at home while listening to music. In these situations, readers are exposed to …

High working memory capacity attenuates the deviation effect but not the changing-state effect: Further support for the duplex-mechanism account of auditory …

P Sörqvist - Memory & Cognition, 2010 - Springer
Serial short-term memory is impaired by background sound, at least when a sound element
suddenly deviates from an otherwise repetitive sequence (the deviation effect) and when …

The effects of classroom noise on the reading comprehension of adolescents

D Connolly, J Dockrell, B Shield, R Conetta… - The journal of the …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
An investigation has been carried out to examine the impact of different levels of classroom
noise on adolescents' performance on reading and vocabulary-learning tasks. A total of 976 …

Performance, fatigue and stress in open-plan offices: The effects of noise and restoration on hearing impaired and normal hearing individuals

H Jahncke, N Halin - Noise and Health, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Hearing impaired and normal hearing individuals were compared in two within-participant
office noise conditions (high noise: 60 L Aeq and low noise: 30 L Aeq). Performance …

Learning in noisy classrooms: Children's reports of annoyance and distraction from noise are associated with individual differences in mind-wandering and switching …

J Massonnié, P Frasseto, D Mareschal… - Environment and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Classrooms are noisy, yet little is known about pupils' subjective reactions to noise. We
surveyed 112 children between 8.70 and 11.38 years of age and extracted five dimensions …