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The finding that irrelevant sound that changes from one token to the next disrupts serial recall performance more strongly than steady-state sound is well established as the changing-state-effect in the auditory distraction literature. Two of the dominant accounts of irrelevant sound effects differ in whether they expect the changing-state effect to be process-sensitive. According to the duplex-mechanism account, changing-state effects are restricted to tasks in which participants process order information. According to an attentional capture account, they should occur independent of the role of order information. In this review, we give an overview of studies investigating the process-sensitivity of the changing-state effect and discuss three methodological issues with the current evidence base and how they have already been addressed in some studies. One issue concerns the difficulties arising from comparing tasks that are supposed to differ only in the necessity to retain order information, but that may also differ in other aspects. A second issue concerns the need to consider what participants actually do when performing a task rather than to rely solely on task analyses. The final issue concerns the pitfalls associated with testing for null effects. Based on these considerations, we conclude that the question of process-sensitivity is far from settled and make suggestions for how to minimize these problems in future research.

Process-Sensitivity of the Changing-State Effect – Three Methodological Issues Regarding the Current Evidence Base