Route-learning and the Mozart effect

Psychology of Music

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 213-220

  Jackson, Catherine S ^a   Tlauka, Michael ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classical music; Mazes; Music psychology; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745317929     PISSN: 03057356     EISSN: 17413087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305735604039285     Document Type: Article

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