Music instruction and its diverse extra-musical benefits

Music Perception

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-226

  Rauscher, Frances H ^a   Hinton, Sean C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Music instruction; Perceptual discrimination; Spatialtemporal reasoning; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855192693     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2011.29.2.215     Document Type: Article

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