Emotional Voices Distort Time: Behavioral and Neural Correlates

Timing and Time Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 79-98

  Schirmer, Annett ^a,b   Ng, Tabitha ^a   Escoffier, Nicolas ^a   Penney, Trevor B ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

affective prosody; ERPs; gender differences; Interval timing; time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980401241     PISSN: 2213445X     EISSN: 22134468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22134468-00002058     Document Type: Article

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