Expert violinists can't tell old from new.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1B1; and College of Arts and Humanities, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute, San Francisco, CA 94103

Published: May 2014

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