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The advent of smartphones has allowed young adults to live life with a fully connected world in their pocket, sending and receiving an average of 128 text messages per day (Burke, 2016). Correlational studies have consistently found that increased mobile phone use is correlated with a lower GPA (Harman et al., 2010; Kirschner et al., 2010; Lepp et al., 2015). Previous research has started to ... read moreinvestigate the distracting effects of mobile phones, from carrying on a messaging conversation while reading a passage to hearing a phone ring while listening to a lecture (Fox et al., 2009; Shelton et al., 2009). To date, no one has yet examined the effect of receiving auditory media notifications while reading passages of varying difficulty. Participants (n = 11) in the present study had their eyes tracked while reading non-fiction passages that were either interrupted with a notification tone or non-interrupted. Passages varied from easy to hard difficulty, and featured three-question comprehension tests. Interestingly, participants performed worst on comprehension of easy reading passages interrupted with the notification tone. Durations of eye fixations increased on both types of passages interrupted with the notification tone. These results provide evidence that media notifications differentially negatively disrupt reading comprehension. Implications and future directions are discussed.read less
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