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Zeamer, Charlotte; Fox Tree, Jean E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Literature on auditory distraction has generally focused on the effects of particular kinds of sounds on attention to target stimuli. In support of extensive previous findings that have demonstrated the special role of language as an auditory distractor, we found that a concurrent speech stream impaired recall of a short lecture, especially for…
Descriptors: Interference (Learning), Auditory Stimuli, Acoustics, Recall (Psychology)