The role of pitch and timbre in voice gender categorization

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Pernet, Cyril R ^a   Belin, Pascal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audition; Categorical perception; Mixture model; Voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867064469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00023     Document Type: Article

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