Four-month-old's discrimination of voice changes in multimodal displays as a function of discrimination protocol

Infancy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-182

  McCartney, Jason S ^a   Panneton, Robin ^b  

^a SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 20444483261     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0702_3     Document Type: Article

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