Task-specific auditory distraction in serial recall and mental arithmetic.
Previous studies suggest that task-irrelevant changing-state sound interferes specifically with the processing of serial order information in the focal task (e.g., serial recall from short-term memory), whereas a deviant sound in the auditory background is supposed to divert central attention, thus...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 930 - 952 |
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Springer Nature
May2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=163314641&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 163314641 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2023 vid: 51 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 163314641 10.3758/s13421-022-01363-6 ppf: 930 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Task-specific auditory distraction in serial recall and mental arithmetic. aug: au: Kattner, Florian Hanl, Sarah Paul, Linda Ellermeier, Wolfgang affil: Health and Medical University, Olympischer Weg 1, 14471, Potsdam, Germany Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany su: Memory Distraction Task performance Phonetics Thought & thinking Experimental design Auditory perception Mathematics Short-term memory Research funding Acoustic stimulation Cations sug: subj: Memory Distraction Task performance Phonetics Thought & thinking Experimental design Auditory perception Mathematics Short-term memory Research funding Acoustic stimulation Cations keyword: Auditory distraction Changing-state effect Deviation effect Irrelevant sound effect Mental arithmetic Serial recall Auditory distraction Changing-state effect Deviation effect Irrelevant sound effect Mental arithmetic Serial recall ab: Previous studies suggest that task-irrelevant changing-state sound interferes specifically with the processing of serial order information in the focal task (e.g., serial recall from short-term memory), whereas a deviant sound in the auditory background is supposed to divert central attention, thus producing distraction in various types of cognitive tasks. Much of the evidence for this distinction rests on the observed dissociations in auditory distraction between serial and non-serial short-term memory tasks. In this study, both the changing-state effect and the deviation effect were contrasted between serial digit recall and mental arithmetic tasks. In three experiments (two conducted online), changing-state sound was found to disrupt serial recall, but it did not lead to a general decrement in performance in different mental arithmetic tasks. In contrast, a deviant voice in the stream of irrelevant speech sounds did not cause reliable distraction in serial recall and simple addition/subtraction tasks, but it did disrupt a more demanding mental arithmetic task. Specifically, the evaluation of math equations (multiplication and addition/subtraction), which was combined with a pair-associate memory task to increase the task demand, was found to be susceptible to auditory distraction in participants who did not serially rehearse the pair-associates. Together, the results support the assumption that the interference produced by changing-state sound is highly specific to tasks that require serial-order processing, whereas auditory deviants may cause attentional capture primarily in highly demanding cognitive tasks (e.g., mental arithmetic) that cannot be solved through serial rehearsal. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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