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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Vasilev, Martin R author Parmentier, Fabrice BR author Angele, Bernhard author Kirkby, Julie A author 2019-07 Oddball studies have shown that sounds unexpectedly deviating from an otherwise repeated sequence capture attention away from the task at hand. While such distraction is typically regarded as potentially important in everyday life, previous work has so far not examined how deviant sounds affect performance on more complex daily tasks. In this study, we developed a new method to examine whether deviant sounds can disrupt reading performance by recording participants' eye movements. Participants read single sentences in silence and while listening to task-irrelevant sounds. In the latter condition, a 50-ms sound was played contingent on the fixation of five target words in the sentence. On most occasions, the same tone was presented (standard sound), whereas on rare and unexpected occasions it was replaced by white noise (deviant sound). The deviant sound resulted in significantly longer fixation durations on the target words relative to the standard sound. A time-course analysis showed that the deviant sound began to affect fixation durations around 180ms after fixation onset. Furthermore, deviance distraction was not modulated by the lexical frequency of target words. In summary, fixation durations on the target words were longer immediately after the presentation of the deviant sound, but there was no evidence that it interfered with the lexical processing of these words. The present results are in line with the recent proposition that deviant sounds yield a temporary motor suppression and suggest that deviant sounds likely inhibit the programming of the next saccade. Vasilev Martin R, Parmentier F, Angele B, Kirkby Julie A. Distraction by deviant sounds during reading: An eye-movement study. Q J Exp Psychol. 2019 Jul;72(7):1863-75. Epub 2019 Jan 13. 10.1177/1747021818820816 1747-0226 1747-0218 Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13003/17145 30518304 L628628720 2-s2.0-85069268817 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/22807 485072500023 Deviance distraction Reading Eye-movements Auditory distractors Distraction by deviant sounds during reading: An eye-movement study