Effects of cognitive load on speech recognition

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-160

  Mattys, Sven L ^a   Wiget, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Divided attention; Ganong; Speech perception; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958126741     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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