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Philip Ball: The Music Instinct. How music works and why we can’t do without it

The Bodley Head, London, pp 442, 2010

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Negrotti, M. Philip Ball: The Music Instinct. How music works and why we can’t do without it. AI & Soc 25, 465–467 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-010-0287-1

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