Development of simultaneous pitch encoding: Infants show a high voice superiority effect

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 660-669

  Marie, Céline ^a,b   Trainor, Laurel J ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

auditory development; auditory scene analysis (ASA); infant; mismatch negativity (MMN); music; polyphonic sound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MEMORY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOICE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873692677     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs050     Document Type: Article

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