Sensory consonance and the perceptual similarity of complex-tone harmonic intervals: Tests of adult and infant listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 3321-3328

  Schellenberg, E Glenn ^a   Trainor, Laurel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; MUSIC;

EID: 0029858583     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417355     Document Type: Article

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