Speech across the menstrual cycle: A replication and extension study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 408, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-24

  Wadnerkar, Meghana B ^a   Cowell, Patricia E ^a   Whiteside, Sandra P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Menstrual cycle; Phonetic; Sex differences; Speech; Voice onset time

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE;

EID: 33749266353     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.032     Document Type: Article

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