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Published on: December 2, 2011
The irrelevant sound effect: what needs modelling, and a tentative model
1Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK. m.2.page@herts.ac.uk
Abstract:
This paper reviews the literature on the irrelevant sound effect and concludes that, contrary to some claims, the data consistently show that irrelevant sound and articulatory suppression are not functionally equivalent. We evaluate the contribution of Larsen and Baddeley (2003 in this issue) and briefly discuss additional data in support of their position. We perform an error analysis on data from their third experiment and simulate detailed aspects of those data using our primacy model of immediate serial recall. Our model is briefly related to a number of findings in the literature on irrelevant sound.
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