No sound is more distracting than the one you're trying not to hear: delayed costs of mental control of task-irrelevant neutral and emotional sounds

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for subjective sound ratings from Experiment 1

Sound	Dimension	Suppression condition		Control condition
Sound	Dimension	M	SD	M	SD
Distractor
	Annoy	47.03	32.97	60.03	21.34
	Arousal	43.38	29.10	52.40	25.26
	Loud	49.76	26.26	65.70	15.04
	Valence	37.78	20.36	37.41	22.23
Control
	Annoy	60.16	23.93	62.46	20.00
	Arousal	54.85	28.06	56.95	20.69
	Loud	55.78	15.33	57.22	13.91
	Valence	32.54	21.40	33.45	22.00

Subjective sound ratings rated on a VAS-scale between 0 and 100. Higher ratings indicate greater annoyance, arousal and loudness, and more positive affective valence

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