The cocktail party effect in infants

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1145-1156

  Newman, Rochelle S ^a   Jusczyk, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030279554     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03207548     Document Type: Article

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