Costs of switching auditory spatial attention in following conversational turn-taking

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Lin, Gaven ^a   Carlile, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cocktail party; Cognitive load; Spatial attention; Speech; Switch costs; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION NETWORK TEST; COGNITION; CONVERSATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; READING SPAN TEST; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84928109817     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00124     Document Type: Article

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