Working-memory disruption by task-irrelevant talkersdepends on degree of talker familiarity
Jens Kreitewolf, Malte Wöstmann, Sarah Tune, Michael Plöchl, Jonas Obleser
This study shows that familiar distracting talkers impair working memory for spoken digits more than unfamiliar ones, but only in students, not in family members and friends.
Attention Perception & Psychophysics · Apr 16, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience