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ArticleJASA express letters2026

Reverberation exacerbates effects of interruption on auditory spatial selective attention.

Victoria Figarola, Wusheng Liang, Sahil Luthra, Christopher Brown, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

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Article in JASA express letters, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Victoria FigarolaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5231-8622
Wusheng LiangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0264-8276
Sahil LuthraDepartment of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3517-2609
Christopher BrownDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7550-3014
Barbara Shinn-CunninghamDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5096-5914

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Abstract

Everyday listening requires focusing on one talker while ignoring competing sounds, a process challenged by reverberation and unexpected distractions. Here, we asked whether reverberation decreases effects of distractions by reducing the salience of new onsets, or compounds disruption by increasing task difficulty. Across five online experiments, participants recalled spatialized syllable streams presented with or without interrupters under pseudo-anechoic and reverberant conditions. Interrupters consistently impaired recall, especially the syllables following the interrupter. For the syllable immediately after the interruption, this effect was larger in reverberation than in anechoic conditions. These results demonstrate that distractions are especially disruptive in reverberant settings.

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AttentionAuditory PerceptionSpeech PerceptionAcoustic StimulationHumansMental Recall

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PMID41801020
PMCPMC13015932

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