Practicing perfection: Piano performance as expert memory

Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 342-349

  Chaffin, Roger ^a   Imreh, Gabriela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

HUMANS; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0036637565     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2002.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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