Auditory evoked responses recorded from 16-month-old human infants to words they did and did not know

Dennis L. Molfese

doi:10.1016/0093-934X(90)90120-6

Auditory evoked responses recorded from 16-month-old human infants to words they did and did not know

Dennis L. Molfese

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Auditory evoked responses (AERs) were recorded from the frontal, temporal, and parietal scalp regions of nine male and nine female 16-month-old infants while they listened to a series of words. The brain responses reliably discriminated between words the infants were thought to understand versus those that they did not appear to know as judged by their parents and two independent raters. Findings from this study indicated that the brain wave patterns could discriminate known from unknown words. Sex differences in the patterns of lateralized hemispheric responses to the known and unknown words were also noted. These data indicate that auditory evoked responses may be used to detect differences in word meanings in young infants.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	345-363
Number of pages	19
Journal	Brain and Language
Volume	38
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0093-934X(90)90120-6
State	Published - Apr 1990
Externally published	Yes

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Language and Linguistics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics and Language
Cognitive Neuroscience
Speech and Hearing

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