Disruption of attention by irrelevant stimuli in serial recall

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 513-531

  Lange, Elke B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Distraction; Irrelevant sound; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744591374     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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