Memory for melody: Infants use a relative pitch code

Cognition

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Plantinga, Judy ^a   Trainor, Laurel J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Development; Infants; Pitch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744571595     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.008     Document Type: Article

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