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How much do we orient? A systematic approach to auditory distraction
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association., 2021.
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Abstract
- Data on orienting and habituation to irrelevant sound can distinguish between task-specific and general accounts of auditory distraction: Distractors either disrupt specific cognitive processes (e.g., Jones, 1993; SalaméBaddeley, 1982), or remove more general-purpose attentional resources from any attention-demanding task (e.g., Cowan, 1995). Tested here is the prediction that there is no further auditory distraction effect on immediate serial recall with increments in the number of distractors beyond the "changing-state point" of two discrete distractors. A Bayes factor analysis refutes this nil hypothesis: This prediction, a key element of the strong changing-state hypothesis, is shown to be less likely than two competing alternatives. Quantitative predictions for distraction as a function of the number of distracters are derived for an orienting-response (OR) and a stimulus-mismatch (SMM) hypothesis, representing general and task-specific accounts respectively. The data are shown to be more likely under the SMM hypothesis. Prospects for a parametric account of auditory distraction are considered. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
Recall
Working memory
515 Psychology
Short-term memory
Bayes Theorem
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognition
113 Computer and information sciences
Language and Linguistics
Orienting response
Stimulus (psychology)
Memory, Short-Term
Distraction
Mental Recall
Auditory Perception
Humans
Attention
Habituation
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02787393
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f74c4bcbcf3137bec133bc36f2c37866