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in Bertoli & Bodmer’s  2014 paper looking at the use pf novel sounds as a psychophysiological measure of listening effort, they suggested the possibility that their supposedly task-irrelevant novels captured more attention during easier tasks. they go on  to suggest this would be consistent with a limited resource  model of memory, and indicates that difficult tasks cause subjects to filter relevant info and inhibit irrelevant info pat earlier stages of processing , and global increased levels of alertness/arousal of the subject is responsible for affective stimulus evaluation at later stages of processing

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