Infant cortex responds to other humans from shortly after birth

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Farroni, Teresa ^a,c   Chiarelli, Antonio M ^b   Lloyd Fox, Sarah ^c   Massaccesi, Stefano ^a   Merla, Arcangelo ^b   Di Gangi, Valentina ^a   Mattarello, Tania ^a   Faraguna, Dino ^d,e   Johnson, Mark H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Ospedale di Monfalcone   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84885091027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02851     Document Type: Article

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