Musicians do better than nonmusicians in both auditory and visual timing tasks

Music Perception

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-96

  Rammsayer, Thomas H ^a   Buttkus, Franziska ^b   Altenmüller, Eckart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Drama and Media   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory; Interval timing; Rhythm perception; Sensory modality; Visual

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865746390     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2012.30.1.85     Document Type: Article

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