The N1 hypothesis and irrelevant sound: Evidence from token set size effects

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-47

  Campbell, Tom ^a   Winkler, István ^a,b,c   Kujala, Teija ^a   Näätänen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Auditory N1; Immediate memory; Irrelevant sound effect; Serial recall; Token set size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECORDING; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0345059127     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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