The Effect of Cognitive Control on Different Types of Auditory DistractionShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: Experimental psychology (Göttingen), ISSN 1618-3169, E-ISSN 2190-5142, Vol. 64, no 5, p. 359-368Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Deviant as well as changing auditory distractors interfere with short-term memory. According to the duplex model of auditory distraction, the deviation effect is caused by a shift of attention while the changing-state effect is due to obligatory order processing. This theory predicts that foreknowledge should reduce the deviation effect, but should have no effect on the changing-state effect. We compared the effect of foreknowledge on the two phenomena directly within the same experiment. In a pilot study, specific foreknowledge was impotent in reducing either the changing-state effect or the deviation effect, but it reduced disruption by sentential speech, suggesting that the effects of foreknowledge on auditory distraction may increase with the complexity of the stimulus material. Given the unexpected nature of this finding, we tested whether the same finding would be obtained in (a) a direct preregistered replication in Germany and (b) an additional replication with translated stimulus materials in Sweden.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. Vol. 64, no 5, p. 359-368
Keywords [en]
attentional capture, cross-modal distraction, interference control, top-down control, working memory
National Category
Applied Psychology
Research subject
no Strategic Research Area (SFO)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-24864DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000372ISI: 000416286500006PubMedID: 28662612Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85036503896OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-24864DiVA, id: diva2:1133961
Funder
German Research Foundation (DFG), BE 4311/3-12017-08-172017-08-172020-11-23Bibliographically approved