Contact calls: Information and social function

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 197-208

  Kondo, Noriko ^a   Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Acoustic structure; Contact call

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349303295     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2009.00399.x     Document Type: Review

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