A shield against distraction

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-36

  Halin, Niklas ^a   Marsh, John E ^a,b   Hellman, Anna ^a   Hellström, Ida ^a   Sörqvist, Patrik ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Distraction; Memory; Noise; Selective attention; Task difficulty; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897660083     PISSN: 22113681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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