Attention in Dichotic Listening: Affective Cues and the Influence of Instructions
1959/02/01 by Neville Moray · 1,400 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Active listening #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Computer science #Dichotic listening #Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation #Linguistics #Multisensory perception and integration #Neuroscience #Neuroscience and Music Perception #Psychology #Set (abstract data type) #Speech recognition #Stimulus (psychology) #Subject (documents) #TRACE (psycholinguistics) #Task (project management)
paper · doi:10.1080/17470215908416289
published in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 11(1), 56-60 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 1959/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Abstract
In shadowing one of two simultaneous messages presented dichotically, subjects are unable to report any of the content of the rejected message. Even if the rejected message consists of a short list of simple words repeated many times, a recognition test fails to reveal any trace of the list. If numbers are interpolated in prose passages presented for dichotic shadowing, no more are recalled from the rejected messages if the instructions are specifically to remember numbers than if the instructions are general: a specific set for numbers will not break through the attentional barrier set up in this task. The only stimulus so far found that will break through this barrier is the subject's own name. It is probably only material “important” to the subject that will break through the barrier.
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