Auditory Distraction and Short-Term Memory: Phenomena and Practical Implications

By S. Banbury, William J. Macken, S. Tremblay, Dylan M. Jones. Hum. Factors, 2001

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Effects of unattended speech on performance and subjective distraction: The role of acoustic design in open-plan offices (2014, result): “The lack of attenuation is in line with the findings that there does not seem to be habituation to background speech, at least in serial recall [64].”
Stress, subjective experience and cognitive performance during exposure to noise and vibration (2007, background): “Results from some research groups have found that noise exposure with a varied character with acoustical changes in pitch, timbre, or tempo (independent of speech or tones) has a strong relationship to serial recall in short-term memory (Banbury et al., 2001; Jones, Madden, & Miles, 1992).”