Anti-voice adaptation suggests prototype-based coding of voice identity

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2011, Pages

  Latinus, Marianne ^a   Belin, Pascal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Average; Morphing; Perceptual space; Prototype; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864196513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00175     Document Type: Article

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