Abstract
Ventilation plays a fundamental role in providing adequate air quality in classrooms for ensuring students’ health and learning (Wargocki & Wyon 2017; World Health Organization, 2010). This has become even more relevant since the Covid-19 outbreak, and, to prevent the spread of the virus, most guidelines highlighted the need for the actual ventilation rates to match those recommended for good indoor air quality (REHVA, 2021). However, higher air exchange rates could expose students to more frequent and louder sounds coming either from mechanical equipment (e.g., fans) or from the outdoor (in the case of natural ventilation), which might impact students’ cognition, speech perception, and acoustic comfort (Bluyssen, 2020). Therefore, a systematic literature review, (Pellegatti et al., 2023) was conducted according to the PRISMA guidelines (Page et al., 2021) to explore how natural and mechanical ventilation-related sound stimuli affect these domains