Neural attunement processes in infants during the acquisition of a language-specific phonemic contrast

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 315-321

  Minagawa Kawai, Yasuyo ^a,b,c,d   Mori, Koichi ^e   Naoi, Nozomi ^a   Kojima, Shozo ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory area; Cerebral lateralization; Development; NIRS; Phonemic acquisition; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846237197     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1984-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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