Psychoacoustic abilities as predictors of vocal emotion recognition

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1799-1810

  Globerson, Eitan ^a,b   Amir, Noam ^c   Golan, Ofer ^a   Kishon Rabin, Liat ^c   Lavidor, Michal ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Bar Ilan University and Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Audition; Music cognition; Psychoacoustics; Sound recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887582012     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0518-x     Document Type: Article

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