Dimension-specific attention directs learning and listening on auditory training tasks

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1329-1335

  Halliday, Lorna F ^a,b   Moore, David R ^a   Taylor, Jenny L ^a   Amitay, Sygal ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory processing; Frequency discrimination; Intensity discrimination; Learning; Order effects; Training

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959220832     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0148-0     Document Type: Review

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