Figure 5.

Mean writing speed (characters/s) for conditions in silence, with dialogue and with halfalogue as background sound at four different time intervals: last 30 s before interruption; 10 s after interruption; the next 5 s after and the next 5 s after that. The data for the same time periods in the writing task are reported both in conditions with interruptions (panel A) and in conditions without interruptions (panel B). Time periods in panel B correspond to the same time periods in panel A, and therefore carry the same name, but there was no task interruption in the condition reported in panel B