Neural Tracking to Auditory Statistical Structures in Children

Abstract

Children's brain is able to track the linguistic structures in continuous speech. When there was no prior knowledge, we found that children also automatically detected and tracked the statistical structures in auditory tone steam as reflected by neural entrainment, but their ability was immature.

Keywords

auditory / children / entrainment / magnetoencephalography / statistical learning

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