Earlier speech exposure does not accelerate speech acquisition

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 11159-11163

  Peña, Marcela ^a,b   Werker, Janet F ^c   Dehaene Lambertz, Ghislaine ^d,e,f  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^e DIF   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864999264     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6516-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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