Using active noise-cancelling headphones in open-plan offices: No influence on cognitive performance but improvement of perceived privacy and acoustic environment

High speech intelligibility in open-plan offices and thus a high changing-state character of the acoustic environment have been found to negatively influence cognitive performance. This is often attributed to the so-called irrelevant speech effect. Office workers lately use active noise-cancelling (...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Johannes Mueller, Andreas Liebl, Noemi Herget, Dorina Kohler, Philip Leistner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Built Environment
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2022.962462/full