Playing music for a smarter ear: Cognitive, perceptual and neurobiological evidence

Music Perception

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-146

  Strait, Dana ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Brain; Language; Memory; Musicians

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855166725     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2011.29.2.133     Document Type: Article

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