Retroactive effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall from short-term memory

Dennis Norris; Alan Baddeley; Michael P A Page

doi:10.1037/0278-7393.30.5.1093

Retroactive effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall from short-term memory

Dennis Norris, Alan Baddeley, Michael P A Page

Psychology

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Abstract

The authors report 5 serial-recall experiments. In 4 of the 5 experiments, they show that irrelevant sound (IS) has a retroactive effect on material already in memory. In Experiment 1, IS presented during a filled retention interval had a reliable effect on list recall. Four further experiments, 3 of which used retroactive IS, showed that IS continued to-have an effect on recall following a long, filled retention interval. Articulatory suppression during visual input was found to abolish the long-lasting, retroactive effect of IS, supporting the idea that IS affects the phonological-loop component of short-term memory. IS also, therefore, seems to affect a longer term memory system with which the loop interacts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1093-105
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Volume	30
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.30.5.1093
Publication status	Published - 2004

Keywords

Cues
Humans
Memory, Short-Term
Mental Recall
Phonetics
Sound
Speech Perception
Time Factors
Visual Perception

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