Electrophysiological evidence of statistical learning of long-distance dependencies in 8-month-old preterm and full-term infants

Brain and Language

Volumn 148, Issue , 2015, Pages 25-36

  Kabdebon, C ^a,b,c   Pena, M ^d   Buiatti, M ^a,b,c   Dehaene Lambertz, G ^a,b,c  

^a Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Frequency tagging; Infant; Language; Learning; Phase locking; Prematurity; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, PREMATURE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84940450955     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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