Atypical behavioral responses to environmental sounds are common in autistic children and
adults, with 50–70% of this population exhibiting decreased sound tolerance (DST) at some …

While the development of intelligent technologies in security surveillance can augment
human capabilities, they do not replace the role of the operator entirely; as such, when …

This chapter demonstrates how, in the fight for better behaviour, those who can't or won't
conform to the norm come to be figured as unreasonable. By investigating reasonableness …

The main goal of the present research is to gain a better understanding of the consequences
of background noise on learning, with a specific focus on how noise may impair maths …

Everyday reading occurs in different settings, such as on the train to work, in a busy
cafeteria, or at home while listening to music. In these situations, readers are exposed to …

Whether cognitive load—and other aspects of task difficulty—increases or decreases
distractibility is subject of much debate in contemporary psychology. One camp argues that …

Automatic information processing has been and still is a debated topic. Traditionally,
automatic processes are deemed to take place autonomously and independently of top …

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 …

The classic account of the load theory (LT) of attention suggests that increasing cognitive
load leads to greater processing of task-irrelevant stimuli due to competition for limited …

Classically, attentional selectivity has been conceptualized as a passive by-product of
capacity limits on stimulus processing. Here, we examine the role of more active cognitive …