Impact of irrelevant speech and non-speech sounds on serial recall of verbal and spatial items in children and adults

Abstract Short-term memory for sequences of verbal items such as written words is reliably impaired by task-irrelevant background sounds, a phenomenon known as the “Irrelevant Sound Effect” (ISE). Different theoretical accounts have been proposed to explain the mechanisms underlying the ISE. Some of...

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Main Authors: Larissa Leist, Thomas Lachmann, Maria Klatte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85855-w
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