2010 May 19, “Study: Overheard cell phone conversations more distracting”, in WSYR-TV), Ithaca, New York:
According to a peer-reviewed study forthcoming in Psychological Science, we are distracted from overhearing half of a conversation-a halfalogue-but not overhearing both sides of a conversation.
2010 May 21, “It's Not Just You: Hearing Half A Phone Call IS Annoying”, in Scientific American:
But when we're limited to just one side of a two-sided dialogue—or “halfalogue”—our brains have to work harder to guess what's coming next.
