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Original Article

Attentional Interference in Judgments of Musical Timbre: Individual Differences in Working Memory

Michael D. Hall University of Nevada Department of Psychology Las Vegas
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Dawn G. Blasko The Pennsylvania State University at Erie Department of Psychology
Pages 94-112 | Published online: 07 Aug 2010

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