Do Mental Speed and Musical Abilities Interact?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 999, Issue , 2003, Pages 485-496

  Gruhn, Wilfried ^a   Galley, Niels ^b   Kluth, Christine ^a  

^a University of Music   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrooculogram; Expertise; g factor; Intelligence; Mental speed; Music aptitude

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING;

EID: 0346308210     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1284.059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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