Distraction by competing speech in young and older adult listeners

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 453-467

  Tun, Patricia A ^a   O'Kane, Gail ^b   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036715239     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.17.3.453     Document Type: Article

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