Cerebral lateralization and early speech acquisition: A developmental scenario

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 217-232

  Minagawa Kawai, Yasuyo ^a,b   Cristià, Alejandrina ^a   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental cerebral lateralization; Functional specialization; Infancy; Near infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS); Speech perception; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; AUDITORY CORTEX; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANCY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79958026778     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2011.03.005     Document Type: Review

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