The impoverished brain: Disparities in maternal education affect the neural response to sound

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17221-17231

  Skoe, Erika ^a,b   Krizman, Jennifer ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPELLING; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84886673754     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2102-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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