Marsh, John E., Hanczakowski, Maciej, Beaman, C. Philip, Meng, Zhu and Jones, Dylan M.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-5542
2025.
Thinking about meaning: level-of-processing modulates semantic auditory distraction.
Journal of Cognitive Psychology
37
(6)
, pp. 544-556.
10.1080/20445911.2024.2381279
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Abstract
An effect is reported of a level-of-processing manipulation on the between-sequence semantic similarity effect, the finding that the correct recall of visually-presented target items is disrupted more by the presence of to-be-ignored auditory items (distracters) drawn from the same as compared to a different semantic category. Participants engaged in either a vowel-counting task (shallow-processing) or a pleasantness-rating task (deep-processing) on lists during study. The between-sequence semantic similarity effect was observed in the deep-processing but not shallow-processing condition. Thinking about meaning therefore yielded susceptibility to disruption via the semantic properties of the irrelevant material. Intrusions of related distracters were found with both deep and shallow-processing, but shallow-processing resulted in more intrusions. We propose a two-process account of these findings wherein distracters have independent effects on response-generation and source-monitoring.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Psychology |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 2044-5911 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 9 August 2024 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 10 July 2024 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2025 10:40 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171252 |
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