Voice and emotion processing in the human neonatal brain

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1411-1419

  Cheng, Yawei ^a   Lee, Shin Yi ^a   Chen, Hsin Yu ^a   Wang, Ping Yao ^a   Decety, Jean ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 84860374630     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00214     Document Type: Article

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