Conventional rhythms enhance infants' and adults' perception of musical patterns

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-118

  Trehub, Sandra E ^a   Hannon, Erin E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Development; Infants; Music; Perception; Rhythm

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; RHYTHM; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 58149191233     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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