An Embodied Approach to Testing Musical Empathy in Participants With an Autism Spectrum Disorder

Music & Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-36

  De Bruyn, Leen ^a   Moelants, Dirk ^a   Leman, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

affect attribution; autism; embodiment; music; musical empathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990342867     PISSN: 19438621     EISSN: 1943863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1943862111415116     Document Type: Article

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