Generalization of word meanings during infant sleep

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Friedrich, Manuela ^a,b   Wilhelm, Ines ^c,d   Born, Jan ^d   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE CLASS; BRAIN; CHILD HEALTH; MEMORY; SLEEP;

ADULT; BRAIN; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MEMORY; PLASTICITY; SLEEP SPINDLE; WAKEFULNESS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEMANTICS; SLEEP;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEMANTICS; SLEEP; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84938742162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7004     Document Type: Article

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