Do Women Prefer More Complex Music around Ovulation?

Benjamin D. Charlton; Piera Filippi; W. Tecumseh Fitch

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035626

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Do Women Prefer More Complex Music around Ovulation?

Benjamin D. Charlton ,

* E-mail: benjamin.charlton@univie.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Piera Filippi,

Affiliation Department of Philosophy and Music, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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W. Tecumseh Fitch

Affiliation Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Do Women Prefer More Complex Music around Ovulation?

Benjamin D. Charlton,
Piera Filippi,
W. Tecumseh Fitch

Published: April 25, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035626

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