Artificially induced valence of distractor words increases the effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1055-1062

  Buchner, Axel ^a   Mehl, Bettina ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^b   Wentura, Dirk ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33750832263     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193252     Document Type: Article

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