The irrelevant sound effect: What needs modelling, and a tentative model

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1289-1300

  Page, Mike P A ^a   Norris, D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; REVIEW; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND;

EID: 0242456025     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980343000233     Document Type: Review

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