Auditory distractors are processed but do not interfere with visual search of any difficulty when sound is irrelevant.
People often report being distracted during their visual tasks, such as monitoring the road ahead, by task-irrelevant sounds, for example, a baby crying on the backseat. When we first tried to study the effect of auditory distraction on visual-search performance in the laboratory using the highly se...
| Publicado en: | Visual Cognition Vol. 32; no. 9/10; pp. 1067 - 1084 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct-Dec2024
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