Non-musicians' perception of phrase boundaries in music: A cross-cultural ERP study

Biological Psychology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-81

  Nan, Yun ^a   Knösche, Thomas R ^b   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Event related potentials; Music perception; Non musicians; Phrase structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650502768     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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