Sound source location modulates the irrelevant-sound effect

From: Memory & Cognition | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Buchner, Axel; Bell, Raoul; Rothermund, Klaus; Wentura, Dirk | Copyright information

Participants memorized lists of visually presented digits in silence or while ignoring distractor sounds that either came from the front and thus from the direction in which participants' attention was oriented, or from behind. Distractor sounds impaired recall performance, but the largest impairment was observed when the sound source was directionally close to the frontal visual target display. The results are consistent with the assumption of cross-modal attentional links in models of atten...

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