Assessing Musical Abilities Objectively: Construction and Validation of the Profile of Music Perception Skills

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Law, Lily N C ^a   Zentner, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LEARNING; LOUDNESS; MALE; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; PITCH; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; STANDARDIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TUNING CURVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; PUBLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871679626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052508     Document Type: Article

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