Disliked Music can be Better for Performance than Liked Music

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 550-555

  Perham, Nick ^a   Sykora, Martinne ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL;

EID: 84859525341     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.2826     Document Type: Article

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