ArticleInfant behavior & development2018
fNIRS reveals enhanced brain activation to female (versus male) infant directed speech (relative to adult directed speech) in Young Human Infants.
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- Neural responses to affective speech, including motherese, map onto clinical and social eye tracking profiles in toddlers with ASD.Nature human behaviour · 2022Article
- The Metacognitive and Neurocognitive Signatures of Test Methods in Academic Listening.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Use of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Predict and Measure Cochlear Implant Outcomes: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- No Evidence of Robust Noun-Referent Associations in German-Learning 6- to 14-Month-Olds.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in toddlers: Neural differentiation of communicative cues and relation to future language abilities.Developmental science · 2020Article
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Abstract
We hypothesized an association between auditory stimulus structure and activity in the brain that underlies infant auditory preference. In a within-infant design, we assessed brain activity to female and male infant directed relative to adult directed speech in 4-month-old infants using fNIRS. Results are compatible with the hypothesis that enhanced frontal brain activation, specifically in prefrontal cortex that is involved in emotion and reward, is evoked selectively by infant directed speech produced by female voices and may serve as a neuronal substrate for attention to and preference for "motherese" displayed by infants.
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