Perception of missing fundamental pitch by 3- and 4-month-old human infants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3874-3882

  Lau, Bonnie K ^a   Werner, Lynne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; CORTICAL RESPONSE; DISTORTION PRODUCT; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC COMPLEXES; HUMAN INFANTS; PITCH CHANGES; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDIES; SPECTRAL CHANGE;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EXPERIMENTS;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; NOISE; PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CUES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84870919966     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4763991     Document Type: Article

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