Emotional communication in speech and music: The role of melodic and rhythmic contrasts

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Quinto, Lena ^a   Thompson, William Forde ^a   Keating, Felicity Louise ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotional communication; Melodic variability index; Music cognition and perception; Normalized pairwise variability index; Speech prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892368628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00184     Document Type: Article

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