The neonate brain detects speech structure

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

Volumn 105, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 14222-14227

  Gervain, Judit ^a,b   Macagno, Francesco ^c   Cogoi, Silvia ^c   Peña, Marcela ^d   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Newborns; Optical imaging; Perceptual primitives; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SPEECH;

EID: 52949114175     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806530105     Document Type: Article

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