Prenatal experience and neonatal responsiveness to vocal expressions of emotion

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 204-214

  Mastropieri, Diane ^a   Turkewitz, Gerald ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Infant perception; Neonates; Prenatal experience; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTIONALITY; EYELID MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PREGNANCY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032756864     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199911)35:3<204::AID-DEV5>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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