Irrelevant speech disrupts item-context binding

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 376-384

  Bell, Raoul ^a   Röer, Jan P ^a   Buchner, Axel ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Auditory distraction; Irrelevant sound effect; Irrelevant speech effect; Memory binding; Recollection; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SOUND; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883367113     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000212     Document Type: Article

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