On-line statistical segmentation of a non-speech auditory stream in neonates as demonstrated by event-related brain potentials

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1100-1106

  Kudo, Noriko ^a,b,c   Nonaka, Yulri ^a,e   Mizuno, Noriko ^d   Mizuno, Katsumi ^d   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,b,e  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 80051925701     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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