fNIRS reveals enhanced brain activation to female (versus male) infant directed speech (relative to adult directed speech) in Young Human Infants

• Main Authors: Sulpizio, Simone, Doi, Hirokazu, Bornstein, Marc H., Cui, Joy, Esposito, Gianluca, Shinohara, Kazuyuki
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: fNIRS; IDS
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85802; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45099
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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. Resul...