An exploratory fNIRS study on directional asymmetry in segmental discrimination: Lateral–rhotic (/la–ra/) and labial–dorsal (/ba–ga/) contrasts tested in 5- and 9-month-old Japanese infants

• Yoritaka Akimoto ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: y-akimoto@kjs.nagaokaut.ac.jp

  Affiliations Information and Management Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0233-0180

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• Miki Takahasi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

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• Naoto Yamane,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

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• Natsumi Shibata,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

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• Rachel Ka-Ying Tsui,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0152-3132

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• Reiko Mazuka

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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