Music and language: Do they draw on similar syntactic working memory resources?

Psychology of Music

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 190-209

  Fiveash, Anna ^a   Pammer, Kristen ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

memory; musicians; phonological loop; shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis; syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894114651     PISSN: 03057356     EISSN: 17413087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305735612463949     Document Type: Article

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