Citation

Margolin CM, Griebel B, Wolford G. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 1982; 8(6): 613-618.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, American Psychological Association)

DOI

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PMID

6218224

Abstract

Levy (1977) reported a series of experiments in which a distracting task (counting aloud) interfered more with reading than with listening. The results were interpreted as evidence of the importance of phonological recoding during reading. In a similar experiment we varied the nature of the distracting task, using one task related to speech (counting aloud) and one task not related to speech (manual response to a threshold shock). Both distracting tasks led to similar results, namely, more interference with reading than listening. On the basis of our results and a consideration of related literature, we ascribe the selective interference effect to the relative difficulty of reading over listening rather than to the importance of speech recoding in reading.

Language: en