Perception, Action, and Memory Lab

Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London

Publications

2018

St-Louis, M-E., Hughes, R. W., Saint-Aubin, J., & Tremblay, S. (in press). The Resilience of Verbal Sequence Learning: Evidence from the Hebb Repetition Effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.

2017

Marsh, J. E., Yang, J., Qualter, P., Cassandra, R., Perham, N., Vachon, F., Hughes, R. W. (2017). Post-categorical auditory distraction in serial short-term memory: Insights from increased task load and task type. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Marsh, J. E., Crawford, J. C., Pilgrim, L. K., Sörqvist, P., & Hughes, R. W. (2017). Trouble articulating the right words: Evidence for a response-exclusion account of distraction during semantic fluency. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

Vachon, F., Winder, E., Lavandier, M., & Hughes, R.W. (2017). The bigger the better and the more the merrier? Realistic office reverberation levels abolish cognitive distraction by multiple-voice speech. In Proceedings of the 12th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem.

Hughes, R. W., & Marsh, J. E. (2017). The functional determinants of short-term memory: Evidence from perceptual-motor interference in verbal serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition43(4), 537-551.

 

2016

Macken, B., Taylor, J. C., Kozlov, M. D., Hughes, R., & Jones, D. M. (2016). Memory as embodiment: The case of modality and serial short-term memory. Cognition, 155, 113–124. 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.06.013

Elliott, E. M., Hughes, R., Briganti, A., Joseph, T., Marsh, J. E., & Macken, B. (2016). Distraction in verbal short-term memory: Insights from developmental differences. Journal of Memory and Language, 88, 39–50. 10.1016/j.jml.2015.12.008

Hughes, R., Chamberland, C., Tremblay, S., & Jones, D. M. (2016). Perceptual-motor determinants of auditory-verbal serial short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 90, 126-146. 10.1016/j.jml.2016.04.006

 

2015

Marsh, J. E., Hughes, R., Sörqvist, P., Beaman, P., & Jones, D. M. (2015). Erroneous and veridical recall are not two sides of the same coin: Evidence from semantic distraction in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(6), 1728-1740 (Hughes joint 1st auth). 10.1037/xlm0000121

Marsh, J. E., Sörqvist, P., & Hughes, R. (2015). Dynamic cognitive control of irrelevant sound: Increased task-engagement attenuates semantic auditory distraction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(5), 1462-1474.10.1037/xhp0000060

2014

Hughes, R. (2014). Auditory distraction: A duplex-mechanism account. PsyCH Journal, 3(1), 30-41.

Dalton, P., & Hughes, R. (2014). Auditory attentional capture: Implicit and explicit approaches. Psychological Research, 78(3), 313-320.