Spectral slope discrimination in infancy: Sensitivity to socially important timbres

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 183-194

  Tsang, Christine D ^a   Trainor, Laurel J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory; Discrimination; Infants; Spectral slope; Timbre

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE;

EID: 0036383243     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(02)00120-0     Document Type: Article

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