Meaningful background speech impairs delayed memory for texts in teenagers more consistently than transportation noise¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 2 studies · 2 review r2–r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Recall of prose paragraphs read under noise and tested later in silence was impaired by meaningful speech but not by meaningless speech. → Klatte M 2013 q2 i? Results for transportation noise are inconsistent across studies, with some finding impairments from aircraft or road traffic noise and others finding none. → Klatte M 2013 (2)

Evidence¶

Klatte M 2013¶

Klatte M, Bergström K and Lachmann T (2013) Does noise affect learning? A short review on noise effects on cognitive performance in children. Front. Psychol. 4:578. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00578

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review reports teenage prose-memory studies: "Recall performance was impaired by meaningful speech... but not by meaningless speech", consistent with adult studies showing meaningful speech is more disruptive in verbal tasks.

"Recall performance was impaired by meaningful speech (Hygge et al., 2003; Boman, 2004; Sörqvist, 2010 ), but not by meaningless speech ( Hygge, 2003 )."

Klatte M 2013 (2)¶

Klatte M, Bergström K and Lachmann T (2013) Does noise affect learning? A short review on noise effects on cognitive performance in children. Front. Psychol. 4:578. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00578

q2 · i? · review · r3

The review reports inconsistent transportation-noise findings across studies; Ljung et al. (2009) found no effect of road traffic noise or meaningful speech on 12- to 13-year-olds' online reading comprehension.

"Hygge (2003) found impairments due to aircraft noise during encoding. Sörqvist (2010) used a within-subjects design and found no effect of aircraft noise, but severe impairments due to meaningful speech."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Auditory Processing — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Long-Term Memory — outcome: instruction changes it

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