Contextual cues in selective listening
Abstract
Two messages were presented dichotically and subjects were asked to “shadow” whatever they heard on one ear. Somewhere in the middle the two passages were switched to the opposite ears. Subjects occasionally repeated one or two words, at the break, from the wrong ear, but never transferred to it for longer than this. The higher the transition probabilities in the passage the more likely they were to do this. One explanation might be that the “selective filter” (Broadbent, 1958) acts by selectively raising thresholds for signals from the rejected sources rather than acting as an all-or-none barrier.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Psycho-physiological measurements have been used to assess mental effort, to measure user experiences in entertainment technologies, and in human-robot interaction.
“This method has been used to assess mental effort [26-29], to measure user experiences in entertainment technologies [30], and in human robot interaction [31,32].”
From Psycho-physiological assessment of a prosthetic hand sensory feedback system based on an auditory display: a preliminary study (2012) · cites this paper as [28]
Attentional capacity is severely limited, so humans can process only a limited amount of the information hitting their senses at a given time.
“Humans can only process a limited amount of the information hitting their senses at a given time, since attentional capacity is severely limited (Broadbent, 1958; Treisman, 1960; Neisser, 1967; Most et al., 2005; Kristjánsson, 2006; Schneider & Shiffrin, 1977).”
From Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1 (2016) · cites this paper as Treisman, 1960
Cites
Lane, S. D. (2016) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315506173-8 · Cited by 4,707 · see citing works
Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech, with One and with Two Ears
Cherry, E. C. (1953) · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · doi:10.1121/1.1907229 · Cited by 4,554 · see citing works
Broadbent, D. E. (1958) · doi:10.1037/10037-000 · Cited by 4,337 · see citing works
Attention in Dichotic Listening: Affective Cues and the Influence of Instructions
Moray, N. P. (1959) · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · doi:10.1080/17470215908416289 · Cited by 1,398 · see citing works
The role of auditory localization in attention and memory span.
Broadbent, D. Ε. (1954) · Journal of Experimental Psychology · doi:10.1037/h0054182 · Cited by 663 · see citing works
Verbal Context and the Recall of Meaningful Material
Miller, G. A., & Selfridge, J. A. (1950) · The American Journal of Psychology · doi:10.2307/1418920 · Cited by 479 · see citing works
The Effect of Redundancy in Shadowing One of Two Dichotic Messages
Moray, N., & Taylor, A. (1958) · Language and Speech · doi:10.1177/002383095800100204 · Cited by 22 · see citing works
Speech Production and Language Statistics
Goldman-Eisler, F. (1957) · Nature · doi:10.1038/1801497a0 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Neural Mechanisms of Selective Visual Attention
Desimone, R., & Duncan, J. (1995) · Annual Review of Neuroscience · doi:10.1146/annurev.ne.18.030195.001205 · Cited by 8,388 · see citing works
Shiffrin, R. M., & Schneider, W. (1977) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.84.2.127 · Cited by 7,335 · see citing works
Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention.
Schneider, W., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1977) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.84.1.1 · Cited by 5,902 · see citing works
The unbearable automaticity of being
Bargh, J. A., & Chartrand, T. L. (1999) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/0003-066x.54.7.462 · Cited by 3,699 · see citing works
The emotional Stroop task and psychopathology
Williams, J. M. G., Mathews, A., & MacLeod, C. (1996) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.120.1.3 · Cited by 2,420 · see citing works
Dimensional overlap: cognitive basis for stimulus-response compatibility-a model and taxonomy
Kornblum, S., Hasbroucq, T., & Osman, A. (1990) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.97.2.253 · Cited by 1,970 · see citing works
A taxonomy of external and internal attention.
Chun, M. M., Golomb, J. D., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2011) · Annual Review of Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100427 · Cited by 1,472 · see citing works
Coull, J. T. (1998) · Progress in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/s0301-0082(98)00011-2 · Cited by 882 · see citing works
A selective review of selective attention research from the past century
Driver, J. (2001) · British Journal of Psychology · doi:10.1348/000712601162103 · Cited by 658 · see citing works
The attentional blink: Resource depletion or temporary loss of control?
Di Lollo, V., Kawahara, J.-I., Shahab Ghorashi, S. M., & Enns, J. T. (2005) · Psychological Research · doi:10.1007/s00426-004-0173-x · Cited by 448 · see citing works
Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading
Bowman, L. L., Levine, L. E., Waite, B. M., & Gendron, M. (2010) · Computers & Education · doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.024 · Cited by 411 · see citing works
Mindfulness and Counseling Self‐Efficacy: The Mediating Role of Attention and Empathy
Greason, P. B., & Cashwell, C. S. (2009) · Counselor Education and Supervision · doi:10.1002/j.1556-6978.2009.tb00083.x · Cited by 272 · see citing works
Theories and measurement of visual attentional processing in anxiety
Weierich, M. R., Treat, T. A., & Hollingworth, A. (2008) · Cognition and Emotion · doi:10.1080/02699930701597601 · Cited by 245 · see citing works
Cognitive control and attentional functions
Mackie, M.-A., Van Dam, N. T., & Fan, J. (2013) · Brain and Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2013.05.004 · Cited by 235 · see citing works
Breslin, F. C., Zack, M., & McMain, S. (2002) · Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice · doi:10.1093/clipsy.9.3.275 · Cited by 215 · see citing works
Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1
Kristjánsson, Á., Moldoveanu, A., Jóhannesson, Ó. I., Balan, O., Spagnol, S., Valgeirsdóttir, V. V., & Unnthorsson, R. (2016) · Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience · doi:10.3233/rnn-160647 · Cited by 116 · see citing works
“Humans can only process a limited amount of the information hitting their senses at a given time, since attentional capacity is severely limited (Broadbent, 1958; Treisman, 1960; Neisser, 1967; Most et al., 2005; Kristjánsson, 2006; Schneider & Shiffrin, 1977).”
BackgroundA Breakdown in Simultaneous Information Processing
Haines, R. F. (1991) · Presbyopia Research · doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-2131-7_17 · Cited by 110 · see citing works
Gonzalez, J., Soma, H., Sekine, M., & Yu, W. (2012) · Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation · doi:10.1186/1743-0003-9-33 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
Get real! Resolving the debate about equivalent social stimuli
Birmingham, E., Bischof, W. F., & Kingstone, A. (2009) · Visual Cognition · doi:10.1080/13506280902758044 · Cited by 81 · see citing works
Biased and biasing: the hidden bias cascade and bias snowball effects
Dror, I. E. (2025) · Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.3390/bs15040490 · Cited by 29 · see citing works
- Authors
- Treisman, A. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Treisman, Anne M.
- Venue
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1960-10
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 242-248
- ISSN
- 0033-555X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1987292658
- Cited by
- 1,067
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 30 · 2012: 29
- FWCI
- 1.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Keywords
- selective listening, dichotic listening, selective filters, transition probabilities, auditory attention
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
