Attentional modulation of word recognition by children in a dual-task paradigm

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1042-1054

  Choi, Sangsook ^a,c   Lotto, Andrew ^b   Lewis, Dawna ^a   Hoover, Brenda ^a   Stelmachowicz, Patricia ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention allocation; Dual task; Noise; Short term memory; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 48749132708     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/076)     Document Type: Article

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