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SUBMITTER: Benavides-Varela S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3497807 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Benavides-Varela Silvia S Hochmann Jean-Rémy JR Macagno Francesco F Nespor Marina M Mehler Jacques J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121015 44
Recent research has shown that specific areas of the human brain are activated by speech from the time of birth. However, it is currently unknown whether newborns' brains also encode and remember the sounds of words when processing speech. The present study investigates the type of information that newborns retain when they hear words and the brain structures that support word-sound recognition. Forty-four healthy newborns were tested with the functional near-infrared spectroscopy method to esta ...[more]