TY - JOUR
T1 - Newborn infants can organize the auditory world
AU - Winkler, István
AU - Kushnerenko, Elena
AU - Horváth, János
AU - Čeponiene, Rita
AU - Fellman, Vineta
AU - Huotilainen, Minna
AU - Näätänen, Risto
AU - Sussman, Elyse
PY - 2003/9/30
Y1 - 2003/9/30
N2 - The perceptual world of neonates is usually regarded as not yet being fully organized in terms of objects in the same way as it is for adults. Using a recently developed method based on electric brain responses, we found that, similarly to adults, newborn infants segregate concurrent streams of sound, allowing them to organize the auditory input according to the existing sound source. The segregation of concurrent sound streams is a crucial step in the path leading to the identification of objects in the environment. Its presence in newborn infants shows that the basic abilities required for the development of conceptual objects are available already at the time of birth.
AB - The perceptual world of neonates is usually regarded as not yet being fully organized in terms of objects in the same way as it is for adults. Using a recently developed method based on electric brain responses, we found that, similarly to adults, newborn infants segregate concurrent streams of sound, allowing them to organize the auditory input according to the existing sound source. The segregation of concurrent sound streams is a crucial step in the path leading to the identification of objects in the environment. Its presence in newborn infants shows that the basic abilities required for the development of conceptual objects are available already at the time of birth.
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2031891100
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2031891100
M3 - Article
C2 - 14500903
AN - SCOPUS:0141593517
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 100
SP - 11812
EP - 11815
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 20
ER -