Irrelevant Sound Disrupts Order Information in Free Recall as in Serial Recall

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 615-636

  Beaman, C Philip ^a   Jones, Dylan M ^a,b,c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOUND;

EID: 0032133653     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755774     Document Type: Article

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