The relationship between testosterone and vocal frequencies in human males

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 783-788

  Evans, Sarah ^a   Neave, Nick ^a   Wakelin, Delia ^a   Hamilton, Colin ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; Formant dispersion; Fundamental frequency; Male; Testosterone; Voice

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 40749104565     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.11.033     Document Type: Article

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