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Publication Date: 2005-Jul
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Auditory Attentional Capture during Serial Recall: Violations at Encoding of an Algorithm-Based Neural Model?
Hughes, Robert W.; Vachon, Francois; Jones, Dylan M.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v31 n4 p736-749 Jul 2005
A novel attentional capture effect is reported in which visual-verbal serial recall was disrupted if a single deviation in the interstimulus interval occurred within otherwise regularly presented task-irrelevant spoken items. The degree of disruption was the same whether the temporal deviant was embedded in a sequence made up of a repeating item or a sequence of changing items. Moreover, the effect was evident during the presentation of the to-be-remembered sequence but not during rehearsal just prior to recall, suggesting that the encoding of sequences is particularly susceptible. The results suggest that attentional capture is due to a violation of an algorithm rather than an aggregate-based neural model and further undermine an attentional capture-based account of the classical changing-state irrelevant sound effect.
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Auditory Stimuli, Attention, Visual Stimuli, Verbal Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Mathematical Models, Error of Measurement, Neurolinguistics
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