Episodic long-term memory of spoken discourse masked by speech: What is the role for working memory capacity?

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 210-218

  Sörqvist, Patrik ^a   Rönnberg, Jerker ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cocktail party; Masking speech; Pisodic long term memory; Size comparison span; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857396421     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0353)     Document Type: Article

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