Animal Pitch Perception: Melodies and Harmonies

Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 5-18

  Hoeschele, Marisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Music; Perception; Pitch

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018304841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19114745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3819/CCBR.2017.120002     Document Type: Article

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