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Publication details [#11720]
Armstrong, G. Blake and Pradeep Sopory. 1997. Effects of Background Television on Phonological and Visuo-Spatial Working Memory. Communication Research 24 (5) : 459–480. 22 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0093-6502
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is shown that background TV affects working memory capacity. The negative influence increased when verbally based memory techniques were used as opposed to spatially based techniques.