Learning to differentiate individuals by their voices: Infants' individuation of native- and foreign-species voices

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 228-237

  Friendly, Rayna H ^a   Rendall, Drew ^b   Trainor, Laurel J ^a,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult; Cross species; Development; Experience; Human; Infant; Perceptual narrowing; Plasticity; Primate; Rhesus monkey; Voice discrimination

Indexed keywords

HAPLORHINI; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SPECIES; DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTUAL NARROWING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTICITY; PRIMATE; RHESUS MONKEY; VOICE; VOICE DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SPECIES; DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; PERCEPTUAL NARROWING; PLASTICITY; PRIMATE; RHESUS MONKEY; VOICE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; VOICE;

EID: 84893844277     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21164     Document Type: Article

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