Special issue on noise, memory and learning

Some of the bipolar nonorthogonal dimensions we had considered included (1) empirical study - theoretical/review; (2) scope of dependent measure(s): narrow-wide; (3) setting: lab-field; (4) setting: basic research - applied; and (5) noise source: speech - others. RΦnnberg, Rudner, Lunner and Zekveld summarize studies in which perceptual load and cognitive load can be dissociated and suggest that if the phonological mismatch with the lexicon is sufficiently large, cognitive resources will be brought into play, which for persons with a low working memory capacity will be more of a burden than for persons with a high working memory capacity.