Investigating the influence of continuous babble on auditory short-term memory performance

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 735-751

  Heinrich, Antje ^a,c   Schneider, Bruce A ^a   Craik, Fergus I M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 42449104314     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701402372     Document Type: Article

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