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Mem Cognit. 1974 Jul;2(4):641-6. doi: 10.3758/BF03198133.

Semantic processing in dichotic listening? A replication.

Memory & cognition

A Treisman, R Squire, J Green

Affiliations

  1. Oxford University, OX1 3PS, Oxford, England.

PMID: 24203732 DOI: 10.3758/BF03198133

Abstract

This experiment explores semantic processing of one message while another is attended to and shadowed. It was an attempt to replicate and clarify an earlier finding by Lewis (1970). Like Lewis, we found that mean shadowing latency was increased when a synonym of the shadowed word coincided with it on the unattended channel. However, this occurred only with synonyms in an early list position and appeared to affect only a small proportion of trials. The implications of this and other recent findings for theories of selective listening are discussed.

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