Individual differences reveal the basis of consonance.

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Published in Curr Biol on May 20, 2010

Authors

Josh H McDermott1, Andriana J Lehr, Andrew J Oxenham

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. jhm@cns.nyu.edu

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