Cerebral hemodynamics in newborn infants exposed to speech sounds: A whole-head optical topography study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2092-2103

  Sato, Hiroki ^a,b   Hirabayashi, Yukiko ^a,b   Tsubokura, Hifumi ^b,c   Kanai, Makoto ^d   Ashida, Takashi ^e   Konishi, Ikuo ^f   Uchida Ota, Mariko ^b,g   Konishi, Yukuo ^b,h   Maki, Atsushi ^a,b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Language acquisition; Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); Neonates; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMODYNAMICS; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEWBORN; OPTICAL TOPOGRAPHY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84864954120     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21350     Document Type: Article

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