Numerical discrimination in newborn infants as revealed by event-related potentials to tone sequences

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1620-1624

  Ruusuvirta, Timo ^a,b,c,d   Huotilainen, Minna ^a   Fellman, Vineta ^e,f,g   Näätänen, Risto ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Event related potential (ERP); Human; Infant; Mismatch response; Number

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH RESPONSE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 70350228645     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06938.x     Document Type: Article

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