Becoming musically enculturated: Effects of music classes for infants on brain and behavior

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-138

  Trainor, Laurel J ^a,b   Marie, Céline ^a   Gerry, David ^a   Whiskin, Elaine ^a   Unrau, Andrea ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain development; EEG; Enculturation; Esthetics; Infancy; Learning; Music acquisition; Tonality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MUSIC; MUSICAL ENCULTURATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84860261126     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06462.x     Document Type: Article

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