Listening to white noise may facilitate cognitive performance, including new word learning, for some individuals. This study investigated whether auditory white noise facilitates the learning of novel written words from context in healthy young adults. Sixty-nine participants were required to determine the meaning of novel words placed within sentence contexts during a silent reading task. Learning was performed either with or without white noise, and recognition of novel word meanings was tested immediately after learning and after a short delay. Immediate recognition accuracy for learned novel word meanings was higher in the noise group relative to the no noise group, however this effect was no longer evident at the delayed recognition test. These findings suggest that white noise has the capacity to facilitate meaning acquisition from context, however further research is needed to clarify its capacity to improve longer-term retention of meaning.

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白噪声有助于从上下文中学习新词

对于某些人来说，听白噪声可能会促进认知表现，包括新词学习。这项研究调查了听觉白噪声是否有助于健康年轻人从上下文中学习新的书面单词。在无声阅读任务中，69 名参与者被要求确定放置在句子上下文中的新词的含义。在有或没有白噪声的情况下进行学习，并在学习后立即和短暂的延迟后测试对新词含义的识别。与无噪声组相比，噪声组对学习到的新词义的即时识别准确率更高，但这种影响在延迟识别测试中不再明显。这些发现表明白噪声有能力促进从上下文中获取意义，