Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2020-201.08 |
Location: | BF-GMS
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Title:
| Changing-state irrelevant speech disrupts visual-verbal but not visual-spatial serial recall
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Publication year: | 2024
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URL:
| https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001360
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Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
In an influential article, Jones et al. (1995) provide evidence that auditory distraction by changing relative to repetitive auditory distracters (the changing-state effect) did not differ between a visual-verbal and visual-spatial serial recall task, providing evidence for an amodal mechanism for the representation of serial order in short-term memory that transcends modalities. This finding has been highly influential for theories of short-term memory and auditory distraction. However, evidence vis-à-vis the robustness of this result is sorely lacking. Here, two high-powered replications of Jones et al.'s (1995) crucial Experiment 4 were undertaken. In the first partial replication (n = 64), a fully within-participants design was adopted, wherein participants undertook both the visual-verbal and visual-spatial serial recall tasks under different irrelevant sound conditions, without a retention period. The second near-identical replication (n = 128), incorporated a retention period and implemented the task-modality manipulation as a between-participants factor, as per the original Jones et al. (1995; Experiment 4) study. In both experiments, the changing-state effect was observed for visual-verbal serial recall but not for visual-spatial serial recall. The results are consistent with modular and interference-based accounts of distraction and challenge some aspects of functional equivalence accounts.
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Accessibility: | Document exists in file
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Marsh, J. E.
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Secondary author(s):
| Hurlstone, M. J., Marois, A., Ball, L. J., Moore, S. B., Vachon, F., Schlittmeier, S. J., Röer, J. P., Buchner, A., Aust, F., Bell, R.
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Document type:
| Article
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Reference:
| Marsh, J. E., Hurlstone, M. J., Marois, A., Ball, L. J., Moore, S. B., Vachon, F., Schlittmeier, S. J., Röer, J. P., Buchner, A., Aust, F., & Bell, R. (2024). Changing-state irrelevant speech disrupts visual–verbal but not visual–spatial serial recall.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001360
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2-year Impact Factor: | 0.84|2023
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Impact factor notes: | Impact factor not available yet for 2024
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Times cited: | 0|2024-10-15
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Indexed document: | Yes
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Quartile: | Q2
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Keywords: | Auditory distraction / Functional equivalence / Modularity / Serial order / Short-term memory
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