Musical distracters, personality type and cognitive performance in school children

Psychology of Music

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 403-420

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Stephenson, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intelligence testing; Music distraction; Personality traits; Pre adolescents

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049146155     PISSN: 03057356     EISSN: 17413087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305735607072653     Document Type: Article

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