Newborn infants process pitch intervals

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 304-308

  Stefanics, Gábor ^a,b   Háden, Gábor P ^a,c   Sziller, István ^d   Balázs, László ^a   Beke, Anna ^d   Winkler, István ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Development; Event related brain potentials (ERP); Mismatch negativity (MMN); Neonates; Pitch perception; Relative pitch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; STANDARD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 59149085792     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.11.020     Document Type: Article

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