The irrelevant speech effect: A PET study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1899-1911

  Gisselgård, Jens ^a   Petersson, Karl Magnus ^a,b,c   Baddeley, Alan ^d   Ingvar, Martin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional modulation; Functional imaging; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECALL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0142122631     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00122-2     Document Type: Article

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