Gender-specific sensitivity to low frequencies in male speech

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 375, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 148-150

  Hunter, Michael D ^a   Phang, Soo Yee ^a   Lee, Kwang Hyuk ^a   Woodruff, Peter W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Gender differences; Neuroethology; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOICE;

EID: 13444257807     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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