Language, music, and children's brains: A rhythmic timing perspective on language and music as cognitive systems

Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Goswami, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Developmental psychology; Dyslexia; Language impairment; Modularity; Prosody; Rhythmic entrainment; Rhythmic processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876705225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553426.003.0030     Document Type: Note

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