The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: the importance of working memory capacity.
Psychon Bull Rev
; 8(2): 331-5, 2001 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-11495122
ABSTRACT
Wood and Cowan (1995) replicated and extended Moray's (1959) investigation of the cocktail party phenomenon, which refers to a situation in which one can attend to only part of a noisy environment, yet highly pertinent stimuli such as one's own name can suddenly capture attention. Both of these previous investigations have shown that approximately 33% of subjects report hearing their own name in an unattended, irrelevant message. Here we show that subjects who detect their name in the irrelevant message have relatively low working-memory capacities, suggesting that they have difficulty blocking out, or inhibiting, distracting information.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Reconhecimento Visual de Modelos
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Mascaramento Perceptivo
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Rememoração Mental
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Atenção
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Percepção da Fala
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2001
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Article