Reverberant auditory environments: The effects of multiple echoes on distraction by 'irrelevant' speech

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1077-1090

  Beaman, C Philip ^a   Holt, Nigel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SIMULATION; SPEECH;

EID: 37349064456     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1315     Document Type: Article

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