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Irrelevant sound effects amongst younger and older adults: Objective findings and subjective insights

Pages 241-265 | Published online: 10 Mar 2011

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Jan P. Röer, Raoul Bell, Ulrike Körner & Axel Buchner. (2018) Equivalent auditory distraction in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 172, pages 41-58.
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Jan Philipp Röer, Jan Rummel, Raoul Bell & Axel Buchner. (2017) Metacognition in Auditory Distraction: How Expectations about Distractibility Influence the Irrelevant Sound Effect. Journal of Cognition 1:1.
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Nick Perham & Harriet Currie. (2014) Does listening to preferred music improve reading comprehension performance?. Applied Cognitive Psychology 28:2, pages 279-284.
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Jan P. Röer, Raoul Bell & Axel Buchner. (2014) What Determines Auditory Distraction? On the Roles of Local Auditory Changes and Expectation Violations. PLoS ONE 9:1, pages e84166.
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Raoul Bell, Jan P. Röer & Axel Buchner. (2013) Irrelevant Speech Disrupts Item-Context Binding. Experimental Psychology 60:5, pages 376-384.
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Maria J.S. Guerreiro, Dana R. Murphy & Pascal W.M. Van Gerven. (2013) Making sense of age-related distractibility: The critical role of sensory modality. Acta Psychologica 142:2, pages 184-194.
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Emily M. Elliott & Alicia M. Briganti. (2012) Investigating the role of attentional resources in the irrelevant speech effect. Acta Psychologica 140:1, pages 64-74.
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Victoria J. WilliamsonTom MitchellGraham J. HitchAlan D. Baddeley. (2010) Musicians’ memory for verbal and tonal materials under conditions of irrelevant sound. Psychology of Music 38:3, pages 331-350.
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Patrik Sörqvist. (2010) Effects of aircraft noise and speech on prose memory: What role for working memory capacity?. Journal of Environmental Psychology 30:1, pages 112-118.
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Pascal W. M. Van Gerven, Henk Vos, Martin P. J. Van Boxtel, Sabine A. Janssen & Henk M. E. Miedema. (2009) Annoyance from environmental noise across the lifespan. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126:1, pages 187-194.
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C. Philip Beaman & Nigel J. Holt. (2007) Reverberant auditory environments: the effects of multiple echoes on distraction by ‘irrelevant’ speech. Applied Cognitive Psychology 21:8, pages 1077-1090.
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Raoul Bell & Axel Buchner. (2007) Equivalent irrelevant-sound effects for old and young adults. Memory & Cognition 35:2, pages 352-364.
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W. A. Meijer, R. H. M. de Groot, M. P. J. Van Boxtel, P. W. M. Van Gerven & J. Jolles. (2006) Verbal Learning and Aging: Combined Effects of Irrelevant Speech, Interstimulus Interval, and Education. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 61:5, pages P285-P294.
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