Syllabic discrimination in premature human infants prior to complete formation of cortical layers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4846-4851

  Mahmoudzadeh, Mahdi ^a   Dehaene Lambertz, Ghislaine ^b,c,d   Fournier, Marc ^a   Kongolo, Guy ^a   Goudjil, Sabrina ^a   Dubois, Jessica ^b,c,d   Grebe, Reinhard ^a   Wallois, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Hemispheric lateralization; Hemodynamic response; Language; Near infrared spectroscopy; Premature human brain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ONTOGENY; PHONEME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; VOICE CHANGE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; SPEECH; VOICE;

EID: 84875264962     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212220110     Document Type: Article

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