Impact of irrelevant speech and non-speech sounds on serial recall of verbal and spatial items in children and adults

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Pubblicato in:Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group) vol. 15, no. 1 (2025), p. 1951
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245 1 |a Impact of irrelevant speech and non-speech sounds on serial recall of verbal and spatial items in children and adults 
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520 3 |a Short-term memory for sequences of verbal items such as written words is reliably impaired by task-irrelevant background sounds, a phenomenon known as the “Irrelevant Sound Effect” (ISE). Different theoretical accounts have been proposed to explain the mechanisms underlying the ISE. Some of these assume specific interference between obligatory sound processing and phonological or serial order representations generated during task performance, whereas other posit that background sounds involuntarily divert attention away from the focal task. To explore the roles of phonological processing, serial order retention, and attention control, we analyzed the effects of environmental non-speech sounds and unfamiliar speech on serial recall of verbal items (pictures representing German nouns) and spatial items (dot locations) in children (n = 137) and adults (n = 98). In the verbal task, both age groups were equally affected by background sounds, with speech impairing recall more than environmental sounds. In the spatial task, no ISE was found in adults and fourth graders, but third graders exhibited significant performance impairment from both sounds. There was no habituation to the sound effects across the experimental trials. The findings indicate that both specific interference and attention capture may contribute to the ISE, with the impact of attention capture potentially decreasing with age. 
653 |a Attention task 
653 |a Habituation 
653 |a Serial recall 
653 |a Short term memory 
653 |a Environmental effects 
653 |a Spatial memory 
653 |a Phonological processing 
653 |a Age differences 
653 |a Elementary school students 
653 |a Attention 
653 |a Speech sounds 
653 |a Mental task performance 
653 |a Speech 
653 |a Speech disorders 
653 |a German language 
653 |a Information processing 
653 |a Adults 
653 |a Phonology 
653 |a Sound 
653 |a Age groups 
653 |a Verbal memory 
653 |a Sequences 
653 |a Task performance 
653 |a Serial order 
653 |a Recall 
653 |a Children 
653 |a Written language 
653 |a Social 
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