Auditory stream segregation improves infants' selective attention to target tones amid distracters

Infancy

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 655-668

  Smith, Nicholas A ^a   Trainor, Laurel J ^b  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY STREAM SEGREGATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; TARGET TONE;

EID: 80053574190     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00067.x     Document Type: Article

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