2021 No https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34369418/ Prodi, Nicola Europe Experimental Epidemiology Study Students Middle/Jr High (6-8) Noise Test Performance Children Classroom acoustics Comprehension Listening effort Math Reverberation Speech perception While the longer reverberation time did not significantly affect
accuracy or RTs under the quiet condition, it had several effects when
in combination with classroom noise, depending on the task measured.
A significant drop in accuracy with a longer reverberation time emerged
for the speech perception task, but only for the grade 6 children. The
effect on accuracy of a longer reverberation time was nonsignificant for
sentence comprehension (always at ceiling), and depended on the children’s age in the mental calculation task. RTs were longer for moderate
than for short reverberation times in the speech perception and sentence
comprehension tasks, while there was no significant effect of the different reverberation times on RTs in the mental calculation task