: Memory: changing-state effect

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changing-state effect

The immediate serial recall of a sequence of items is disturbed when a sound that the subject has to ignore is unstable (for example, a sequence of different letters as compared to the repetition of the same letter or sounds with different frequencies compared to sounds of the same frequency).

• Jones, D., & J. Macken, W. (1993). Irrelevant tones produce an irrelevant speech effect: Implications for phonological coding in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 369–381. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.19.2.369
[Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
• Jones, D., Madden, C., & Miles, C. (1992). Privileged access by irrelevant speech to short-term memory: The role of changing state. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 44(4), 645–669. https://doi.org/10.1080/14640749208401304
[Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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