ArticleFrontiers in psychology2014
The effects of distraction on metacognition and metacognition on distraction: evidence from recognition memory.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Responsible attention: the effect of divided attention on metacognition and responsible remembering.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Smartphone Distraction Scale in Chinese College Students: Validity, Reliability and Influencing Factors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Dividing attention impairs metacognitive control more than monitoring.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- Doubts About the Role of Rehearsal in the Irrelevant Sound Effect.Experimental psychology · 2021Article
- Exploring the Dimensions of Smartphone Distraction: Development, Validation, Measurement Invariance, and Latent Mean Differences of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Cognitive load eliminates the effect of perceptual information on judgments of learning with sentences.Memory & cognition · 2019Article
- Metacognition in Auditory Distraction: How Expectations about Distractibility Influence the Irrelevant Sound Effect.Journal of cognition · 2017Article
- Selectively Distracted: Divided Attention and Memory for Important Information.Psychological science · 2017Article
- Individual Differences in the Accuracy of Judgments of Learning Are Related to the Gray Matter Volume and Functional Connectivity of the Left Mid-Insula.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Erroneous and veridical recall are not two sides of the same coin: Evidence from semantic distraction in free recall.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2015Article
- Continued effects of context reinstatement in recognition.Memory & cognition · 2015Article
- Metacognition moderates the effects of distraction on cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Reduction of environmental distraction to facilitate cognitive performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
- Effects of distraction on memory and cognition: a commentary.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
- Response of the Pre-Oriented Goal-Directed Attention to Usual and Unusual Distractors: A Preliminary Study.Basic and clinical neuroscienceArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The effects of auditory distraction in memory tasks have, to date, been examined with procedures that minimize participants' control over their own memory processes. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to metacognitive control factors which might affect memory performance. In this study, we investigate the effects of auditory distraction on metacognitive control of memory, examining the effects of auditory distraction in recognition tasks utilizing the metacognitive framework of Koriat and Goldsmith (1996), to determine whether strategic regulation of memory accuracy is impacted by auditory distraction. Results replicated previous findings in showing that auditory distraction impairs memory performance in tasks minimizing participants' metacognitive control (forced-report test). However, the results revealed also that when metacognitive control is allowed (free-report tests), auditory distraction impacts upon a range of metacognitive indices. In the present study, auditory distraction undermined accuracy of metacognitive monitoring (resolution), reduced confidence in responses provided and, correspondingly, increased participants' propensity to withhold responses in free-report recognition. Crucially, changes in metacognitive processes were related to impairment in free-report recognition performance, as the use of the "don't know" option under distraction led to a reduction in the number of correct responses volunteered in free-report tests. Overall, the present results show how auditory distraction exerts its influence on memory performance via both memory and metamemory processes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.