A dynamically minimalist cognitive explanation of musical preference: Is familiarity everything?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Schubert, Emery ^a   Hargreaves, David J ^b   North, Adrian C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive model; Familiarity; Mind body; Musical experience; Neural networks; Preference; Reciprocal feedback model; Spreading activation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897642749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00038     Document Type: Article

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