Similar patterns of age-related differences in emotion recognition from speech and music

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 182-191

  Laukka, Petri ^a   Juslin, Patrik N ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Music; Speech; Vocal expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848914826     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-007-9063-z     Document Type: Article

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