You are only as old as you sound: Auditory aftereffects in vocal age perception

Hearing Research

Volumn 282, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 283-288

  Zäske, Romi ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82755193720     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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