title: Tempo as a perceptual cue for judgement of infant cries.
abstract: Cry stimuli with a variety of tempi were generated by changing the durations of some original cries using linear time-scale conversion. Subjects who had had no experience in infant care were instructed to identify the stimuli by making a forced-choice among the three categories: hunger, anger, and call. The analysis indicates that tempo is one reliable cue for cry judgement, especially for the discrimination between cries of hunger and anger.
authors.affiliation: ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Research Laboratories, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsukamoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tohkura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003448:Crying; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013998:Time Perception