The persistenceof musical memories: A descriptive study of earworms

Music Perception

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 425-431

  Halpern, Andrea R ^a   Bartlett, James C ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory imagery; Earworms; Memory diary; Music memory; Persistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954543516     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2011.28.1.425     Document Type: Article

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