François, ClémentTeixidó, MariaTakerkart, SylvainAgut, ThaïsBosch Galceran, LauraRodríguez Fornells, Antoni2018-05-232018-05-232017-09-292045-2322https://hdl.handle.net/2445/122517Words and melodies are some of the basic elements infants are able to extract early in life from the auditory input. Whether melodic cues contained in songs can facilitate word-form extraction immediately after birth remained unexplored. Here, we provided converging neural and computational evidence of the early benefit of melodies for language acquisition. Twenty-eight neonates were tested on their ability to extract word-forms from continuous flows of sung and spoken syllabic sequences. We found different brain dynamics for sung and spoken streams and observed successful detection of word-form violations in the sung condition only. Furthermore, neonatal brain responses for sung streams predicted expressive vocabulary at 18 months as demonstrated by multiple regression and cross-validation analyses. These findings suggest that early neural individual differences in prosodic speech processing might be a good indicator of later language outcomes and could be considered as a relevant factor in the development of infants' language skills.13 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) François, Clément et al., 2017http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/esCognicióPercepció auditivaNodrissonsMúsicaCognitionAuditory perceptionInfantsMusicinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article6736952018-05-23info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess28963569