Electrophysiological Evidence for the Understanding of Maternal Speech by 9-Month-Old Infants

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 728-733

  Parise, Eugenio ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

ERP; infant development; infants; language acquisition; language development; N400; priming; semantic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863919738     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612438734     Document Type: Article

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