The tuning of human neonates' preference for speech

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 517-527

  Vouloumanos, Athena ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^b   Werker, Janet F ^c   Martin, Alia ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MACACA; MALE; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77954290899     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01412.x     Document Type: Article

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