Detrimental effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall of visual items are reflected in reduced visual N1 and reduced theta activity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1097-1105

  Weisz, Nathan ^a   Schlittmeier, Sabine J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

EEG; Irrelevant sound effect; ISE; N1; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SOUND; SPEECH; THETA RHYTHM; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745787464     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj051     Document Type: Article

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