Without it no music: Beat induction as a fundamental musical trait

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-91

  Honing, Henkjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive biology; Event related brain potentials; Meter; Musicality; Rhythm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BEAT INDUCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RHYTHM; SOUND;

EID: 84860259333     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06402.x     Document Type: Article

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