The influence of task-irrelevant music on language processing: Syntactic and semantic structures

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2011, Pages

  Hoch, Lisianne ^a   Poulin Charronnat, Benedicte ^a,b   Tillmann, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Cross modal interactions; Musical expectancy; Semantic expectancy; Structural integration; Syntactic expectancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862268451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00112     Document Type: Article

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