Infants' and adults' use of duration and intensity cues in the segmentation of tone patterns

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 333-340

  Trainor, Laurel J ^a   Adams, Beth ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MUSIC; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034133414     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03205553     Document Type: Article

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