The Costs and Benefits of Tonal Centers for Chord Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 470-482

  Tillmann, Barbara ^a,b   Janata, Petr ^a   Birk, Jeffrey ^a   Bharucha, Jamshed J ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; HEARING; HUMAN; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MUSIC; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0042352169     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.29.2.470     Document Type: Article

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