Speech versus non-speech as irrelevant sound: Controlling acoustic variation

Biological Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-70

  Little, Jason S ^a   Martin, Frances Heritage ^a   Thomson, Richard H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Changing state hypothesis; Event related potentials; Feature model; Irrelevant sound effect; Phonological similarity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH;

EID: 77955270382     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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