Disruption of verbal-spatial serial memory by extraneous air-traffic speech

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 73-79

  Tremblay, Sébastien ^a   Parmentier, Fabrice B R ^b,c   Hodgetts, Helen M ^d   Hughes, Robert W ^d,e   Jones, Dylan M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air traffic control; Background speech; Binding; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862206576     PISSN: 22113681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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