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music vs speech sounds and also the role of automatically activated sound representations
in musical expertise.
Acknowledgements
The author thanks the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki, and the Marie Curie
Fellowship of the European Commission. Special thanks to Elvira Brattico, M.A., for her
comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
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