Executive function, visual attention and the cocktail party problem in musicians and non-musicians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Clayton, Kameron K ^a   Swaminathan, Jayaganesh ^a   Yazdanbakhsh, Arash ^a   Zuk, Jennifer ^b   Patel, Aniruddh D ^c   Kidd, Gerald ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE TRACKING; HEARING; HUMAN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MUSICIAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSIC; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978058390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157638     Document Type: Article

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