A biological rationale for musical scales

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Gill, Kamraan Z ^a   Purves, Dale ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; PITCH; RATING SCALE; VOCALIZATION;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954056827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008144     Document Type: Article

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