Experiment 1

Question 1

Sample

Answer 1

Unknown number of undergraduate students and research workers from Oxford university

Question 2

Procedure

Answer 2

Participants completed dichotic listening where they were played a passage of light fiction in right ear which they had to shadow. At the same time, a list of simple words read into other ear 35 yptimes

Question 3

Procedure pt2

Answer 3

At the end of the fast, the participants were given a recognition task of a list of 21 words- 7 of which had appeared in the shadowed message, 7 from rejected, 7 from neither. Asked to identify which words they had heard

Question 4

Results

Answer 4

Shadowed passage - mean of 4.9 recognised
Rejected passage - mean of 1.9 recognised
Neither - mean of 2.6

Question 5

Conclusion

Answer 5

Participants are much more able to recognise words from the shadowed passage. Almost none of the words from the rejected message is able to break the barrier.