Themes as prototypes: Similarity judgments and categorization tasks in musical contexts

Musicae Scientiae

Volumn 11, Issue 1_suppl, 2007, Pages 99-133

  Ziv, Naomi ^a   Eitan, Zohar ^b  

^a Department of Behavioral Sciences   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 39749139588     PISSN: 10298649     EISSN: 20454147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1029864907011001051     Document Type: Article

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