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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations
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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations

Published on: July 1, 2015

Conventional rhythms enhance infants' and adults' perception of musical patterns

Sandra E Trehub1, Erin E Hannon

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. sandra.trehub@utoronto.ca

Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior
|December 9, 2008
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