Human Screams Occupy a Privileged Niche in the Communication Soundscape

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 2051-2056

  Arnal, Luc H ^a,b   Flinker, Adeen ^b   Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^a   Giraud, Anne Lise ^c   Poeppel, David ^b,d  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EMPIRICAL AESTHETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOUND; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938748643     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.043     Document Type: Article

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