Listener impressions of speakers with Parkinsons disease

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-57

  Jaywant, Abhishek ^a   Pell, Marc D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Dysfluency; Movement disorders; Neurodegenerative diseases; Personality assessment; Speech acoustics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149133403     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617709990919     Document Type: Article

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