Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online test for musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 87-93

  Ullén, Fredrik ^a   Mosing, Miriam A ^a   Holm, Linus ^b   Eriksson, Helene ^a   Madison, Guy ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Expertise; Music; Psychological testing; Sensory discrimination; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894266172     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.057     Document Type: Article

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