Electrophysiological evidence of illusory audiovisual speech percept in human infants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 11442-11445

  Kushnerenko, Elena ^a,b   Teinonen, Tuomas ^a,c   Volein, Agnes ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Audiovisual integration; Event related potentials (ERP); Mismatch negativity (MMN); Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHONEME; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 49649094986     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804275105     Document Type: Article

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