A 'threshold effect' of selective attention on the dichotic REA with children

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-137

  Obrzut, John E ^a   Horgesheimer, Jared ^b   Boliek, Carol A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0032770563     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15326942DN160108     Document Type: Article

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