Beethoven's last piano sonata and those who follow crocodiles: Cross-domain mappings of auditory pitch in a musical context

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 405-422

  Eitan, Zohar ^a   Timmers, Renee ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory pitch; Cross domain mapping; Metaphor; Music cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LITERATURE; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 76349119890     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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