ArticleQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2021
Distraction by auditory novelty during reading: Evidence for disruption in saccade planning, but not saccade execution.
Article in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Unexpected sounds induce a rapid inhibition of eye-movement responses.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Auditory context-dependent distraction by unexpected visual stimuli.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Involuntary motor responses are elicited both by rare sounds and rare pitch changes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Distraction by unexpected sounds: comparing response repetition and response switching.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Aging Increases Cross-Modal Distraction by Unexpected Sounds: Controlling for Response Speed.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Novel or unexpected sounds that deviate from an otherwise repetitive sequence of the same sound cause behavioural distraction. Recent work has suggested that distraction also occurs during reading as fixation durations increased when a deviant sound was presented at the fixation onset of words. The present study tested the hypothesis that this increase in fixation durations occurs due to saccadic inhibition. This was done by manipulating the temporal onset of sounds relative to the fixation onset of words in the text. If novel sounds cause saccadic inhibition, they should be more distracting when presented during the second half of fixations when saccade programming usually takes place. Participants read single sentences and heard a 120 ms sound when they fixated five target words in the sentence. On most occasions (
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