Tracking time with song and count: Different Weber functions for musicians and nonmusicians

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1649-1654

  Grondin, Simon ^b   Killeen, Peter R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSIC; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSIC; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449100510     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.7.1649     Document Type: Article

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