Kitapci, K.Yılmazer, SemihaErkip F.2016-02-082016-02-082007http://hdl.handle.net/11693/27065The aim of this study is to find out effects of speech intelligibility on visual short-term memory performance by testing 34 interior architecture students in three different sound environments. Those sound environments were composed of real office sounds and a speech sample that are mixed to achieve varying STI levels of 'continuous noise', 'masked speech' and 'speech' sound environments [2]. Test procedure had three steps: first questionnaire, computer based short-term memory test and second questionnaire. Results show that there is no significant difference of visual short-term memory performance between varying sound environments, however subjective results derived from questionnaires show that students were distracted most by 'speech' sound environment.EnglishShort term memorySignificant differencesSound environmentTest proceduresBrainExhibitionsSpeech intelligibilitySurveysTestingAcoustic noiseConference Paper