Plasticity in developing brain: Active auditory exposure impacts prelinguistic acoustic mapping

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 13349-13363

  Benasich, April A ^a   Choudhury, Naseem A ^a,b   Realpe Bonilla, Teresa ^a   Roesler, Cynthia P ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic mapping; Developmental plasticity; EEG ERP; Human infant; Prelinguistic; Training

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; AGE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84907494812     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0972-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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