Simon Banbury

Simon Banbury

Simon Banbury is a researcher and first author of the 1998 British Journal of Psychology paper on speech, office noise and office tasks.

Who they are

The work of Simon Banbury reaches this site through the paper listed below. The name is tied to Irrelevant Speech Effect. Their paper reports: Three experiments on prose memory and mental arithmetic: speech disrupted both tasks; noise without speech disrupted only arithmetic.

Key papers

Banbury, S. P., & Berry, D. C. (1998). Disruption of office-related tasks by speech and office noise. British Journal of Psychology, 89(3), 499-517. What it reports: Three experiments on prose memory and mental arithmetic: speech disrupted both tasks; noise without speech disrupted only arithmetic.

Key ideas

Irrelevant Speech Effect: The disruption of memory and arithmetic tasks by background speech.

Sources

  1. Banbury, S. P., & Berry, D. C. (1998). Disruption of office-related tasks by speech and office noise. British Journal of Psychology, 89(3), 499-517.