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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Built Environment |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2022.962462/full |