The emotional meaning of harmonic intervals

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-131

  Oelmann, Hella ^a   Laeng, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67249098416     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-008-0217-z     Document Type: Article

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