Word frequency of irrelevant speech distractors affects serial recall
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Valence of distractor words increases the effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall.
Participants memorized target words in silence or while ignoring neutral or valent (positive or negative) distractor words that could be either possessor-relevant or other-relevant. Distractor words impaired recall performance, but valent distractor words caused more disruption than neutral distractors, and negative distractors caused more disruption than positive distractors. The results are p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/bf03195299