Effects of musicality and motivational orientation on auditory category learning: A test of a regulatory-fit hypothesis.
Two experiments investigated the effects of musicality and motivational orientation on auditory category learning. In both experiments, participants learned to classify tone stimuli that varied in frequency and duration according to an initially unknown disjunctive rule; feedback involved gaining po...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 231 - 252 |
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Feb2012
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