Sound source location modulates the irrelevant-sound effect

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 617-628

  Buchner, Axel ^a   Bell, Raoul ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^b   Wentura, Dirk ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SOUND; WORKING MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 45849108349     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.3.617     Document Type: Article

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