Memory in the neonate brain.

BACKGROUND: The capacity to memorize speech sounds is crucial for language acquisition. Newborn human infants can discriminate phonetic contrasts and extract rhythm, prosodic information, and simple regularities from speech. Yet, there is scarce evidence that infants can recognize common words from...

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Main Authors: Silvia Benavides-Varela, David M Gómez, Francesco Macagno, Ricardo A H Bion, Isabelle Peretz, Jacques Mehler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3210178?pdf=render