Fetal Testosterone, Socio-Emotional Engagement and Language Development

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-132

  Farrant, Brad M ^a   Mattes, Eugen ^a   Keelan, Jeff A ^b   Hickey, Martha ^c   Whitehouse, Andrew J O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fetal testosterone; Language development; Prenatal testosterone; Raine Study; Socio emotional engagement; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875647892     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.1771     Document Type: Article

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