Neural mismatch indices of vowel discrimination in monolingually and bilingually exposed infants: Does attention matter?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 526, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-14

  Shafer, Valerie L ^a   Yu, Yan H ^a,c   Garrido Nag, Karen ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Galaudet University   (United States)

^c WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Bilingualism; ERP; Infant; Neural mismatch responses; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SCREENING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865627096     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.07.064     Document Type: Article

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