Musical Experience, Auditory Perception and Reading-Related Skills in Children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Banai, Karen ^a   Ahissar, Merav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MEMORY; MUSIC; READING;

EID: 84884552197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075876     Document Type: Article

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