Manual actions affect vocalizations of infants

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 599-603

  Bernardis, Paolo ^a   Bello, Arianna ^a   Pettenati, Paola ^a   Stefanini, Silvia ^a   Gentilucci, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gesture; Hand arm action; Infants; Language development; Speech; Voice formants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38349181028     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1256-x     Document Type: Article

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