Key components of the Mozart effect

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 86, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 835-841

  Rauscher, Frances H ^a   Shaw, Gordon L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MUSIC; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MUSIC; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032088369     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.3.835     Document Type: Article

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