Associations between length of music training and reading skills in children

Music Perception

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-155

  Corrigall, Kathleen A ^a   Trainor, Laurel J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Far transfer; Music training; Near transfer; Reading comprehension; Word decoding

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855206264     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2011.29.2.147     Document Type: Article

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