Sound Facilitates Visual Learning

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1422-1427

  Seitz, Aaron R ^a   Kim, Robyn ^b   Shams, Ladan ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOUND; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746004920     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.05.048     Document Type: Article

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