Noise effects on human performance: a meta-analytic synthesis.

JL Szalma, PA Hancock - Psychological bulletin, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Noise is a pervasive and influential source of stress. Whether through the acute effects of
impulse noise or the chronic influence of prolonged exposure, the challenge of noise …

[BOOK][B] Working memory: Loss and reconstruction

P Barrouillet, V Camos - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
Working memory is the cognitive system in charge of the temporary maintenance of
information in view of its on-going processing. Lying at the centre of cognition, it has become …

Auditory distraction: A duplex‐mechanism account

RW Hughes - PsyCh Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A body of laboratory work is reviewed suggesting that auditory distraction comes in two
functionally distinct forms. Interference‐by‐process is produced when the involuntary …

Cognitive control of auditory distraction: impact of task difficulty, foreknowledge, and working memory capacity supports duplex-mechanism account.

RW Hughes, MJ Hurlstone, JE Marsh… - Journal of …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
The influence of top-down cognitive control on 2 putatively distinct forms of distraction was
investigated. Attentional capture by a task-irrelevant auditory deviation (eg, a female-spoken …

Linguistic processing of task-irrelevant speech at a cocktail party

P Har-shai Yahav, E Zion Golumbic - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-
attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether …

Interference by process, not content, determines semantic auditory distraction

JE Marsh, RW Hughes, DM Jones - Cognition, 2009 - Elsevier
Distraction by irrelevant background sound of visually-based cognitive tasks illustrates the
vulnerability of attentional selectivity across modalities. Four experiments centred on …

[HTML][HTML] The indoor sound environment and human task performance: A literature review on the role of room acoustics

J Reinten, PE Braat-Eggen, M Hornikx, HSM Kort… - Building and …, 2017 - Elsevier
A substantial amount of studies have addressed the influence of sound on human
performance. In many of these, however, the large acoustic differences between …

“Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of terminological choices in auditory selective attention research

S Makov, D Pinto, PH Yahav, LM Miller, EZ Golumbic - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
For seventy years, auditory selective attention research has focused on studying the
cognitive mechanisms of prioritizing the processing a 'main'task-relevant stimulus, in the …

Working memory capacity offers resistance to mind‐wandering and external distraction in a context‐specific manner

MK Robison, N Unsworth - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The present study examined the impact of mind‐wandering and distraction in silent and
noisy studying environments and how individual differences in working memory capacity …

Auditory distraction in semantic memory: A process-based approach

JE Marsh, RW Hughes, DM Jones - Journal of memory and language, 2008 - Elsevier
Five experiments demonstrate auditory-semantic distraction in tests of memory for semantic
category-exemplars. The effects of irrelevant sound on category-exemplar recall are shown …