Valence of distractor words increases the effects of irrelevant speech on serial recall

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 722-731

  Buchner, Axel ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^b   Wentura, Dirk ^c   Mehl, Bettina ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 6344245682     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195862     Document Type: Article

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