Failure to confirm the Rauscher and Shaw description of recovery of the Mozart effect

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 843-848

  Steele, Kenneth M ^a   Brown, Joshua D ^b   Stoecker, Jaimily A ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSIC; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033143969     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1999.88.3.843     Document Type: Article

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