Stimulus complexity and dual tasking effects on sustained auditory attention in noise

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 5 PART 1, 2009, Pages 448-453

  Abel, Sharon M ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory detection; Dual task performance; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NOISE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; HEARING; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 66949179788     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2383.2009     Document Type: Article

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