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Subjects shadowed a passage of prose delivered to the right ear and were asked to tap to occurrences of a target in a second passage delivered to the left ear. Group 1 was asked to tap to occurrences of a vowel sound, Group 2 to occurrences of a word, Group 3 to occurrences of a member of a conceptual class of words. The items fulfilling these specifications were identical for all groups, as were the passages. Performance declined from Group I to Group 2 and from Group 2 to Group 3.
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Wilding, J.M., Underwood, G. Selective attention: The site of the filter in the identification of language. Psychon Sci 13, 305–306 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342598
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