Word frequency of irrelevant speech distractors affects serial recall

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 86-97

  Buchner, Axel ^a   Erdfelder, Edgar ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; ATTENTION; LINGUISTICS; PERIODICITY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERIODICITY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 20644434575     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195299     Document Type: Article

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