Development of hemispheric specialization for lexical pitch-accent in Japanese infants

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2503-2513

  Sato, Yutaka ^a   Sogabe, Yuko ^a   Mazuka, Reiko ^a,b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPECIALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; TIME;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78049424667     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21377     Document Type: Article

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