Effects of Speech Clarity on Recognition Memory for Spoken Sentences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  van Engen, Kristin J ^a   Chandrasekaran, Bharath ^a   Smiljanic, Rajka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEMORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866060231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043753     Document Type: Article

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