title: Speech sounds learned by sleeping newborns.
abstract: It is not yet clear whether humans are able to learn while they are sleeping. Here we show that full-term human newborns can be taught to discriminate between similar vowel sounds when they are fast asleep. It is possible that such sleep training soon after birth could find application in clinical or educational situations.
authors.affiliation: Language and the Developing Brain Laboratory, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Department of Psychology, University of Turku, 20100 Turku, Finland. marie.cheour@utu.fi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cheour
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Martynova
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Näätänen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Erkkola
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sillanpää
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kero
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raz
authors.forename: M-L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Kaipio
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hiltunen
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Aaltonen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Savela
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hämäläinen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007804:Language Development; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D013016:Sound