Anticipatory cortical activation precedes auditory events in sleeping infants.

BACKGROUND: Behavioral studies have shown that infants can form associations between environmental events and produce anticipatory actions for the predictable event, but the neural mechanisms for the learning and anticipation of events in infants are not known. Recent neuroimaging studies revealed t...

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Main Authors: Tamami Nakano, Fumitaka Homae, Hama Watanabe, Gentaro Taga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2588543?pdf=render