Failing to Get the Gist of What’s Being Said: Background Noise Impairs Higher Order Cognitive Processing

A dynamic interplay is known to exist between auditory processing and human cognition. For example, prior investigations of speech-in-noise have revealed there is more to learning than just listening: Even if all words within a spoken list correctly heard in noise, later memory for those words is ty...

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Main Authors: John Everett Marsh, Robert eLjung, Anatole eNöstl, Emma eThreadgold, Tom A Campbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00548/full