Sensitivity of newborn auditory cortex to the temporal structure of sounds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 47, 2009, Pages 14726-14733

  Telkemeyer, Silke ^a,b   Rossi, Sonja ^a   Koch, Stefan P ^a   Nierhaus, Till ^a   Steinbrink, Jens ^a   Poeppel, David ^c   Obrig, Hellmuth ^a,d   Wartenburger, Isabell ^a,e  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 72449198936     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1246-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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