Mother and stranger: An electrophysiological study of voice processing in newborns

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1705-1711

  Beauchemin, Maude ^a,b   González Frankenberger, Berta ^a,b   Tremblay, Julie ^a   Vannasing, Phetsamone ^a   Martínez Montes, Eduardo ^c   Belin, Pascal ^d,e   Béland, Renée ^a,b   Francoeur, Diane ^a   Carceller, Ana Maria ^a   Wallois, Fabrice ^f   Lassonde, Maryse ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^c CUBAN NEUROSCIENCE CENTER   (Cuba)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

mismatch negativity; newborns; source analyses; voice processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTHER; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 79960740663     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq242     Document Type: Article

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