Do women's voices provide cues of the likelihood of ovulation? the importance of sampling regime

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Fischer, Julia ^a   Semple, Stuart ^b   Fickenscher, Gisela ^a   Jürgens, Rebecca ^a   Kruse, Eberhard ^c   Heistermann, Michael ^a   Amir, Ofer ^d  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION DETECTION; OVULATION PREDICTION; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SEXUALITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TISSUE WATER; VOCALIZATION; VOICE CHANGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; OVULATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; RISK; SAMPLING STUDIES; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053023101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024490     Document Type: Article

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