We show that retrieval from semantic memory is vulnerable even to the mere presence of
speech. Irrelevant speech impairs semantic fluency—namely, lexical retrieval cued by a …

Three experiments investigated memory for semantic information with the goal of
determining boundary conditions for the manifestation of semantic auditory distraction …

Distraction by irrelevant background sound of visually-based cognitive tasks illustrates the
vulnerability of attentional selectivity across modalities. Four experiments centred on …

Abstract The Retrieval-Induced Forgetting (RIF) paradigm includes three phases:(a)
study/encoding of category exemplars,(b) practicing retrieval of a sub-set of those category …

Five experiments demonstrate auditory-semantic distraction in tests of memory for semantic
category-exemplars. The effects of irrelevant sound on category-exemplar recall are shown …

The processing of the relation between targets and distracters which underpins the
impairment in memory for visually presented words when accompanied by semantically …

Task-irrelevant speech impairs short-term serial recall appreciably. On the interference-by-
process account, the processing of physical (ie, precategorical) changes in speech yields …

In listening to speech, people have been shown to apply several types of adjustment to their
phonemic categories that take into account variations in the prevailing linguistic …

Previous research has shown that lexical representations must include not only linguistic
information (what word was said), but also indexical information (how it was said, and by …

Memory for visually presented items is impaired by speech that is played as an irrelevant
background. The paper presents the view that changing state of the auditory material is an …