Infants' electric brain responses to emotional prosody

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1825-1828

  Grossmann, Tobias ^a,b   Striano, Tricia ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Emotional prosody; Emotional speech; Event related brain potentials; Infants

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORY EVALUATION; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 27544437383     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000185964.34336.b1     Document Type: Article

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