Humans rapidly learn grammatical structure in a new musical scale

Music Perception

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 377-388

  Loui, Psyche ^a   Wessel, David L ^b   Hudson Kam, Carla L ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Grammar; Music cognition; Preference; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952906686     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2010.27.5.377     Document Type: Article

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