TY - JOUR
T1 - Retroactive effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall from short-term memory
AU - Norris, D.
AU - Baddeley, A.D.
AU - Page, M.P.A.
N1 - ' This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.' Original article can be found at: http://content.apa.org/journals/0278-7393 Copyright American Psychological Association
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Five serial recall experiments are reported. In four of the five it is shown that irrelevant sound (IS) has a retroactive effect on material already in memory. In the first experiment, IS presented during a filled retention interval had a reliable effect on list recall. Four further experiments, three 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.
AB - Five serial recall experiments are reported. In four of the five it is shown that irrelevant sound (IS) has a retroactive effect on material already in memory. In the first experiment, IS presented during a filled retention interval had a reliable effect on list recall. Four further experiments, three 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.
U2 - 10.1037/0278-7393.30.5.1093
DO - 10.1037/0278-7393.30.5.1093
M3 - Article
SN - 0278-7393
VL - 30
SP - 1093
EP - 1105
JO - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
IS - 5
ER -