Sex hormone influence on human infants' sound characteristics: Melody in spontaneous crying

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Wermke, Kathleen ^a   Hain, Johannes ^a   Oehler, Klaus ^d   Wermke, Peter ^a   Hesse, Volker ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Children's Hospital Lindenhof   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Crying; Infant; Melody; Sex hormone

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BLOOD; BRAIN; SECRETION; SEX HORMONE; STEROID; VOCALIZATION;

SEX HORMONE;

BLOOD; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

CRYING; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84902161964     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0095     Document Type: Article

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