Artigo Revisado por pares

Irrelevant tones produce an irrelevant speech effect: Implications for phonological coding in working memory.

1993; American Psychological Association; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1037/0278-7393.19.2.369

ISSN

1939-1285

Autores

Dylan M. Jones, William J. Macken,

Tópico(s)

Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Resumo

A series of studies addresses the possibility that tones disrupt serial recall of visually presented material in the same way as speech. A stream of changing tones is as disruptive of visual serial recall as 4 syllables (Experiments 1 and 2). Similar effects were also shown with a repeated syllable that changed only in pitch (Experiment 3). Just as for speech, the effect of tones is not at encoding but during storage of the serial lists (Experiments 4 and 5). The results suggest that speech and tones are equipotent in their capacity to disrupt short-term memory. A «blackboard» model of working memory to account for the effects is outlined

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