Background Speech Disrupts Working Memory Span in 5-Year-Old Children

Conclusions:
Background speech, but not speech-shaped noise, disrupted working memory span in 5-year-old children. These results support the idea that background speech engages domain-general cognitive processes used during the recall of known objects in a way that speech-shaped noise does not.

Source: Ear and Hearing - April 27, 2019 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research