Basic auditory dysfunction in dyslexia as demonstrated by brain activity measurements

Psychophysiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 262-266

  Kujala, Teija ^a   Myllyviita, Katja ^b   Tervaniemi, Mari ^b   Alho, Kimmo ^b   Kallio, Jari ^b   Näätänen, Risto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Mismatch negativity; Preattentive auditory discrimination; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0034054944     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577200990140     Document Type: Article

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