Studying neonates' language and memory capacities with functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2011, Pages

  Benavides Varela, Silvia ^a   Gómez, David M ^a,b   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; fNIRS; Language acquisition; Newborns' memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860578553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00064     Document Type: Article

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