Event-related potentials following contraction of respiratory muscles in pre-term and full-term infants

•Diaphragm contraction in neonates evoked a sequence of three event-related potentials.•Hiccups can be encoded by the brain as early as ten weeks prior to average time of birth.•Hiccups – frequent in neonates – provide afferent input to the developing brain. Involuntary isolated body movements are p...

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