Top-down modulation in the infant brain: Learning-induced expectations rapidly affect the sensory cortex at 6 months

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

Volumn 112, Issue 31, 2015, Pages 9585-9590

  Emberson, Lauren L ^a,b   Richards, John E ^c   Aslin, Richard N ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; FNIRS; Infant; Multisensory; Perceptual development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROMODULATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN; METABOLISM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME;

ANIMALIA;

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84938702188     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510343112     Document Type: Article

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