The effects of repeated exposure of music on pleasingness: Redundancy of rhythm pattern and prototypicality of harmony

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 92-101

  Sakakibara, Ayako ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Effects of repetition on pleasingness; Inverted U shaped functions; Prototypicality of harmony; Redundancy of rhythm pattern; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030524189     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.44.1_92     Document Type: Article

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