Cross-modal distraction by background speech: What role for meaning

Noise and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 210-216

  Marsh, John E ^a   Jones, Dylan M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category clustering; distraction; free recall; selective attention; semantic retrieval; verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77957597695     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.70499     Document Type: Article

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