Retroactive effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall from short-term memory
Norris, D., Baddeley, A.D. and Page, M.P.A.
(2004)
Retroactive effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall from short-term memory.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 30 (5).
pp. 1093-1105.
ISSN 0278-7393
Five serial recall experiments are reported. In four of the five it is shown that irrelevant sound (IS) has a retroactive effect on material already in memory. In the first experiment, IS presented during a filled retention interval had a reliable effect on list recall. Four further experiments, three of which used retroactive IS, showed that IS continued to have an effect on recall following a long, filled retention interval. Articulatory suppression during visual input was found to abolish the long-lasting, retroactive effect of IS, supporting the idea that IS affects the phonological loop component of short-term memory. IS also, therefore, seems to affect a longer term memory system with which the loop interacts.
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Additional information | ' This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.' Original article can be found at: http://content.apa.org/journals/0278-7393 Copyright American Psychological Association |
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