Positive and negative mood states do not influence cross-modal auditory distraction in the serial-recall paradigm.

The aim of this study was to examine whether positive and negative mood states affect auditory distraction in a serial-recall task. The duplex-mechanism account differentiates two types of auditory distraction. The changing-state effect is postulated to be rooted in interference-by-process and to be...

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Main Authors: Saskia Kaiser, Axel Buchner, Raoul Bell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260699