Journal article
Development of auditory‐specific brain rhythm in infants
Abstract
Human infants rapidly develop their auditory perceptual abilities and acquire culture-specific knowledge in speech and music in the second 6 months of life. In the adult brain, neural rhythm around 10 Hz in the temporal lobes is thought to reflect sound analysis and subsequent cognitive processes such as memory and attention. To study when and how such rhythm emerges in infancy, we examined electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings in infants 4 and …
Authors
Fujioka T; Mourad N; Trainor LJ
Journal
European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 521–529
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
February 2011
DOI
10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07544.x
ISSN
0953-816X