Seeing or hearing the pianists? a synopsis of an early audiovisual perception experiment and a replication

Musicae Scientiae

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 324-342

  Behne, Klaus Ernst ^a   Wöllner, Clemens ^b  

^a Hanover Academy of Music Drama and Media   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

audiovisual perception; body movement; performance evaluation; visual interpretation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855988103     PISSN: 10298649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1029864911410955     Document Type: Article

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