The effects of background white noise on memory performance in inattentive school children

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Söderlund, Göran B W ^a,d   Sikström, Sverker ^b   Loftesnes, Jan M ^c   Sonuga Barke, Edmund J ^d,e  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE NOISE; ATTENTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NOISE; STUDENTS;

EID: 77957104352     PISSN: 17449081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-6-55     Document Type: Article

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