Previous research indicates that background speech disrupts reading comprehension
processes, but it remains unclear whether the disruption derives from semantic or …

Eye-tracking is used to explore the cognitive mechanism of irrelevant speech effects in
Chinese reading. The types of background speech (intelligible background speech …

It is not well understood whether background speech affects the initial processing of words
during reading or only the later processes of sentence integration. Additionally, it is not clear …

This study investigated whether background speech impairs lexical processing and how
speech characteristics modulate such influence based on task type. Chinese character pairs …

Task-irrelevant background sound can disrupt performance of visually based cognitive
tasks. The cross-modal breakdown of attentional selectivity in the context of reading was …

Effects of background speech on reading were examined by playing aloud different types of
background speech, while participants read long, syntactically complex and less complex …

Previous research has indicated that meaningful background speech affects individuals
reading comprehension performance differently and that this difference is related to working …

The irrelevant speech effect (ISE) refers to the impairment of visual information processing
by background speech. Prior research on the ISE has focused on short-term memory for …

Do sentence meaning and contextual information get integrated in one-step or is the
integration of extra-linguistic variables delayed to a second step? There are findings which …

The role of working memory (WM) components, such as phonological loop, in online
inferential processing has thus far not been empirically examined with a dual‐task …