Attentional interference in judgments of musical timbre: Individual differences in working memory

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 94-112

  Hall, Michael D ^a   Blasko, Dawn G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Stroop; Timbre; Working memory span

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844276636     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.132.1.94-112     Document Type: Article

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