The basis of musical consonance as revealed by congenital amusia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 19858-19863

  Cousineau, Marion ^a   McDermott, Josh H ^b   Peretz, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetic preferences; Music perception; Roughness

Indexed keywords

AMUSIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MUSIC; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MUSIC;

EID: 84870358241     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207989109     Document Type: Article

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