Task complexity modulates but does not explain the working-memory speech-in-noise link

Evidence

The correlation between WM and speech perception, particularly in noise, tends to be larger when the WM task is complex i.e. processing-heavy (Akeroyd 2008 ). However, this is only a general trend: not all studies show the expected correlation (Koelewijn et al. 2012 ), and some studies show significant correlations between WM and SiN perception even though the WM measure was storage-, not processing-heavy (Humes et al. 2006 ; Rudner et al. 2008 ). Why these inconsistencies occurred remains to be understood. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1233

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1233