Poor attentional inhibition increases susceptibility to background noise

Evidence

WM can also be conceptualised in terms of inhibition of irrelevant information (Engle and Kane 2003 ), which has again been linked to speech perception. For instance, poor inhibition appears to increase susceptibility to background noise during SiN tasks (Janse 2012 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1229

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1229
• XREF: connects to: Attention necessarily requires ignoring competing stimuli to select one focus — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1154