Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on March 19, 2015

Authors

Bruno Gingras1, Henkjan Honing2, Isabelle Peretz3, Laurel J Trainor4, Simon E Fisher5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
2: Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC), Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3: International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
4: Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
5: Department of Language and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6525 XD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and.

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