Listening to Mozart does not enhance backwards digit span performance

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 1179-1184

  Steele, Kenneth M ^a   Ball, Tamera N ^a   Runk, Rebecca ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND; STATISTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MUSIC; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND;

EID: 0031155218     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.84.3c.1179     Document Type: Article

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