Statistical language learning in neonates revealed by event-related brain potentials

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Teinonen, Tuomas ^a,b   Fellman, Vineta ^a,c   Näätänen, Risto ^a,d,e   Alku, Paavo ^f   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NEWBORN; PROBABILITY; SLEEP; SPEECH; STATISTICAL LEARNING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD RECOGNITION; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 65349162757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-21     Document Type: Article

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