Children's judgments of emotion from conflicting cues in speech: Why 6-year-olds are so inflexible

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1648-1660

  Waxer, Matthew ^a   Morton, J Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SEMANTICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; VOICE;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 80052594878     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01624.x     Document Type: Article

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