A typical feeding enhances memory for spoken words in healthy 2- to 3-day-old newborns

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Valiante, A Grace ^a,b   Barr, Ronald G ^c   Zelazo, Philip R ^b,d   Papageorgiou, Apostolos N ^e   Young, Simon N ^b  

^a MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory memory; Breast milk formula; Feeding; Habituation; Healthy newborn

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; FEEDING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY; ATTENTION; BLOOD; BREAST FEEDING; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH;

ATTENTION; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BREAST FEEDING; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; MEMORY; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; SPEECH;

EID: 33645038615     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-2859     Document Type: Article

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