Perceptual differences in infant cries revealed by modifications of acoustic features

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3723-3734

  Protopapas, Athanassios ^a,b   Eimas, Peter D ^b  

^a Scientific Learning Corporation   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0031441603     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420403     Document Type: Article

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