Sleeping newborns extract prosody from continuous speech

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 332-341

  Sambeth, Anke ^a,b   Ruohio, Katja ^a   Alku, Paavo ^c   Fellman, Vineta ^d,e   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,f  

^a Department of Psychology   (Finland)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Continuous speech; Degraded speech; Magnetoencephalography; Newborn; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSODY; SINGING; SLEEP; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHONETICS; SLEEP; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 37549041334     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.09.144     Document Type: Article

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