Long-term memory for music: Infants remember tempo and timbre

Developmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-296

  Trainor, Laurel J ^a   Wu, Luann ^a   Tsang, Christine D ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MUSIC; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL; TIME PERCEPTION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 2942562628     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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