The Effect of Instrumental Timbre on Interval Discrimination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Zarate, Jean Mary ^a   Ritson, Caroline R ^a   Poeppel, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; PITCH; RESPONSE TIME; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884199875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075410     Document Type: Article

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