Object continuity enhances selective auditory attention

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 13174-13178

  Best, Virginia ^a   Ozmeral, Erol J ^a   Kopčo, Norbert ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory mixture; Auditory scene analysis; Source segregation; Spatial hearing; Streaming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 51349132477     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803718105     Document Type: Article

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