Left cradling and left ear advantage for emotional speech: Listen to the other side too

Laterality

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 351-353

  Sieratzki, Jechil S ^a   Roy, Penny ^a   Woll, Bencie ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHILD; CHILD CARE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PREDICTION; PROTECTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 0036799296     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500143000276     Document Type: Article

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