Failing to get the gist of what's being said: background noise impairs higher-order cognitive processing.

ABSTRACT: A dynamic interplay is known to exist between auditory processing and human cognition. For example, prior investigations of speech-in-noise have revealed there is more to learning than just listening: Even if all words within a spoken list are correctly heard in noise, later memory for those words is typically impoverished. These investigations supported a view that there is a "gap" between the intelligibility of speech and memory for that speech. Here, the notion was that this gap between speech intelligibility and memorability is a function of the extent to which the spoken message seizes limited immediate memory resources (e.g., Kjellberg et al., 2008). Accordingly, the more difficult the processing of the spoken message, the less resources are available for elaboration, storage, and re

SUBMITTER: Marsh JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4439538 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature