Assessing signal-driven mechanism in neonates: brain responses to temporally and spectrally different sounds

Past studies have found that in adults that acoustic properties of sound signals (such as fast vs. slow temporal features) differentially activate the left and right hemispheres, and some have hypothesized that left-lateralization for speech processing may follow from left-lateralization to rapidly...

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Main Authors: Yasuyo eMinagawa-Kawai, Alejandrina eCristià, Inga eVendelin, Dominique eCabrol, Emmanuel eDupoux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00135/full