Cross-cultural perspectives on pitch memory

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-52

  Trehub, Sandra E ^a   Glenn Schellenberg, E ^a   Nakata, Takayuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Cross cultural development; Music cognition; Music perception; Pitch memory

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 41949105207     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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