Infants' discrimination of happy and sad music.
@article{Flom2008InfantsDO,
title={Infants' discrimination of happy and sad music.},
author={Ross A. Flom and Douglas A. Gentile and Anne D. Pick},
journal={Infant behavior \& development},
year={2008},
volume={31 4},
pages={
716-28
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:24914609}
}49 Citations
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