The role of habituation in the disruption of recall performance by irrelevant sound.

A series of experiments explored the possibility that the pattern of disruption of recall performance by irrelevant sound reflects the process of habituation. Each of three experiments contrasted the action of three auditory conditions: steady state (repeated word sequence) speech, changing state...

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Published in:	British Journal of Psychology Vol. 88; pp. 549 - 565
Main Authors:	Jones, Dylan M., Macken, William J., Mosdell, Nicholas A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell November 1997
Subjects:	Cognitive interference Recollection (Psychology) Auditory perception Habituation (Neuropsychology)
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