Distractor suppression refers to the ability to filter out distracting and task-irrelevant
information. Distractor suppression is essential for survival and considered a key aspect of …

The mandate of the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN) is to
promote a high level of scientific research concerning all aspects of noise-induced effects on …

A body of laboratory work is reviewed suggesting that auditory distraction comes in two
functionally distinct forms. Interference‐by‐process is produced when the involuntary …

The occurrence of an unexpected, infrequent sound in an otherwise homogeneous auditory
background tends to disrupt the ongoing cognitive task. This “deviation effect” is typically …

In this article, we outline our view of how concentration shields against distraction. We argue
that higher levels of concentration make people less susceptible to distraction for two …

The present study examined the impact of mind‐wandering and distraction in silent and
noisy studying environments and how individual differences in working memory capacity …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a small change in
reverberation time (from 0.57 to 0.69 s) in a classroom on children's performance and …

This article reports 2 experiments that examine techniques to shield against the potentially
disruptive effects of task-irrelevant background speech on proofreading. The participants …

The duplex-mechanism account states that there are two fundamentally different types of
auditory distraction. The disruption by a sequence of changing auditory distractors (the …

The presence of task-irrelevant sound disrupts short-term memory for serial information.
Recent studies found that enhanced perceptual task-encoding load (static visual noise …