Abstract
The effects of visual and auditory interference on a visual scanning task were compared with children from the third grade and college sophomores. A highly confusable visual context significantly reduced scanning rate for both children and adults, but a highly confusable auditory context, played over earphones, had no effect on either group. There was a significant age interaction with interfering visual context. It seems likely that theories assuming auditory encoding of visually presented graphic items have little predictive value for a scanning task. © 1966, Psychonomic Press. All rights reserved.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 163-164 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Psychonomic Science |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1966 |