Learning-induced neural plasticity of speech processing before birth

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

Volumn 110, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 15145-15150

  Partanen, Eino ^a,b   Kujala, Teija ^a   Näätänen, Risto ^a,c,d   Liitola, Auli ^a   Sambeth, Anke ^e   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRAINING; VOWEL;

EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; PREGNANCY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883774233     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302159110     Document Type: Article

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