The function of the frontal lobe in neonates for response to a prosodic voice

Early Human Development

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 225-230

  Saito, Yuri ^a   Kondo, Takeo ^b   Aoyama, Shiori ^c   Fukumoto, Rie ^b   Konishi, Nakao ^c   Nakamura, Kazuhiro ^c   Kobayashi, Masao ^c   Toshima, Tamotsu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory response; Frontal area; Near infrared spectroscopy; Neonates; Pitch variability

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 33947380194     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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