Irrelevant speech effects and statistical learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1551-1559

  Neath, Ian ^a   Guerard, Katherine ^b   Jalbert, Annie ^a   Bireta, Tamra J ^c   Surprenant, Aimée M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Irrelevant speech effect; Short term memory; Statistical learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH;

EID: 68349109391     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902795640     Document Type: Article

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