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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 331-335Publisher
PSYCHONOMIC SOC INC
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196169
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD-21338, R01 HD021338] Funding Source: Medline
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Wood and Cowan (1995) replicated and extended Moray's (1959) investigation of the cocktail party phenomenon, which refers to a situation in which one can attend to only part of a noisy environment, yet highly pertinent stimuli such as one's own name can suddenly capture attention. Both of these previous investigations have shown that approximately 33% of subjects report hearing their own name in an unattended, irrelevant message. Here we show that subjects who detect their name in the irrelevant message have relatively low working-memory capacities, suggesting that they have difficulty blocking out, or inhibiting, distracting information.
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