How aging affects the recognition of emotional speech

Brain and Language

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 262-269

  Paulmann, Silke ^a   Pell, Marc D ^b   Kotz, Sonja A ^a,c  

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

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Prosody; Sex; Vocal expression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 40349093030     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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