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The irrelevant sound effect: similarity of content or similarity of process?

Schendel, Zachary Adam
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1148590088

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2006, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Psychology.
The purpose of these experiments was twofold: The general purpose was to further investigate the properties of the phonological loop by extending the irrelevant sound effect paradigm to music (Schendel & Palmer, in press). The specific purpose was to investigate the similarity of content (Salame & Baddley, 1982; 1989) and similarity of process (Jones & Macken, 1993; 1995) hypotheses of working memory in order to determine which could best account for the irrelevant sound effects in both language and music. Experiment I consisted of serial recall of visually-presented nine-digit or nine-note sequences in the presence of irrelevant silence, instrumental music, vocal music, or Arabic speech. Experiment IIA and IIB used a six-digit or four-tone standard/comparison task with a retention interval under the same irrelevant sound conditions. Experiment III used the same procedure as IIA, but the irrelevant sound conditions were silence, low-overlap, and high-overlap sounds. In every experiment, a greater acoustic overlap between the to-be-remembered and to-be-ignored stimuli resulted in greater performance decrements. Aspects of both the similarity of process and similarity of content models were supported and integrated into a new model termed the Acoustic Overlap hypothesis which can more accurately account for the current findings.
Neal Johnson (Advisor)
Psychology, Cognitive
memory; working memory; language; speech; music; tones; phonological loop; object-oriented episodic record; acoustic-overlap hypothesis

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  • Schendel, Z. A. (2006). The irrelevant sound effect: similarity of content or similarity of process? [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1148590088

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schendel, Zachary. The irrelevant sound effect: similarity of content or similarity of process? 2006. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1148590088.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schendel, Zachary. "The irrelevant sound effect: similarity of content or similarity of process?" Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1148590088

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