Auditory change detection: Simple sounds are not memorized better than complex sounds

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-91

  Demany, Laurent ^a,b   Trost, Wiebke ^b   Serman, Maja ^b   Semal, Catherine ^b  

^a UMR 5287   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HEARING; HUMAN; MUSIC; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SOUND DETECTION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 37549005141     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02050.x     Document Type: Article

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