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Levitin effect

Levitin effect proper noun: the phenomenon whereby people, even those without musical training, tend to remember songs in the correct key.

Proper noun

the Levitin effect

  1. The phenomenon whereby people, even those without musical training, tend to remember songs in the correct key.

Origin of Levitin effect

First documented by Daniel J. Levitin in 1994.

Questions about Levitin effect

What does Levitin effect mean?
Levitin effect means the phenomenon whereby people, even those without musical training, tend to remember songs in the correct key.
What part of speech is Levitin effect?
Levitin effect is a proper noun.

Words near Levitin effect in the dictionary

  1. Leviticism
  2. Leviticus
  3. levitide
  4. levitides
  5. levities
  6. Levitin effect
  7. Levitism
  8. leviton
  9. levitonic
  10. levitons
  11. levitous

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