Optical brain imaging reveals general auditory and language-specific processing in early infant development

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 254-261

  Minagawa Kawai, Yasuyo ^a,b,c,d   Van Der Lely, Heather ^d,e   Ramus, Franck ^a   Sato, Yutaka ^b   Mazuka, Reiko ^b,f   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; infant; laterality; NIRS; speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78651474099     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq082     Document Type: Article

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