Distraction control processes in free recall: Benefits and costs to performance

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 118-133

  Marsh, John E ^a,b   Sörqvist, Patrik ^b,c   Hodgetts, Helen M ^d,e   Beaman, C Philip ^f   Jones, Dylan M ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^g CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory distraction; Free recall; Inhibition; Negative priming; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONFLICT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; READING; RECALL; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84925767968     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037779     Document Type: Article

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