Prosodic processing in the developing brain

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-39

  Homae, Fumitaka ^a,b   Watanabe, Hama ^a,b   Nakano, Tamami ^b   Taga, Gentaro ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infant; Language acquisition; NIRS; Pitch; Prosody; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548034880     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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