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SUBMITTER: Partanen E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773755 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Partanen Eino E Kujala Teija T Näätänen Risto R Liitola Auli A Sambeth Anke A Huotilainen Minna M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130826 37
Learning, the foundation of adaptive and intelligent behavior, is based on plastic changes in neural assemblies, reflected by the modulation of electric brain responses. In infancy, auditory learning implicates the formation and strengthening of neural long-term memory traces, improving discrimination skills, in particular those forming the prerequisites for speech perception and understanding. Although previous behavioral observations show that newborns react differentially to unfamiliar sounds ...[more]