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Research Articles

Evidence for Two Mechanisms to Account for the Speech to Song Illusion, the Verbal Transformation Effect, and the Sound to Music Illusion

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Pages 250-288 | Received 05 Dec 2022, Accepted 17 Jul 2023, Published online: 25 Jul 2023

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