Music, meaning, and the brain: Comment on “Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics” by Stefan Koelsch
✍ Scribed by Gunter Kreutz
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1571-0645
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