Auditory spatial attention assessed in a flanker interference task

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 554-563

  Chan, Jason S ^a,b   Merrifield, Katherine ^a   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; HUMAN REACTION TIME; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LOUDSPEAKERS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AZIMUTHAL SEPARATION; ENERGETIC MASKING; FLANKER INTERFERENCE; INFORMATIONAL MASKING (IM);

AUDITION;

EID: 19544371947     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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