Tuned with a tune: Talker normalization via general auditory processes

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Laing, Erika J C ^a   Liu, Ran ^b   Lotto, Andrew J ^c   Holt, Lori L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Speech perception; Talker normalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867079304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00203     Document Type: Article

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