Language and the newborn brain: Does prenatal language experience shape the neonate neural response to speech?

Previous research has shown that by the time of birth, the neonate brain responds specially to the native language when compared to acoustically similar non-language stimuli. In the current study, we use Near Infrared Spectroscopy to ask how prenatal language experience might shape the brain respons...

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Main Authors: Lillian eMay, Krista eByers-Heinlein, Judit eGervain, Janet F Werker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00222/full