Stimulus complexity enhances auditory discrimination in patients with extremely severe brain injuries

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 352, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-132

  Kotchoubey, B ^a   Lang, S ^b   Herb, E ^c   Maurer, P ^d   Schmalohr, D ^e   Bostanov, V ^a   Birbaumer, N ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c Klinikum Karlsbad Langensteinbach   (Germany)

^d Clinics Neresheim   (Germany)

^e Youth Rehabilitation Center   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Event related potentials; Humans; Minimal consciousness state; Mismatch negativity; Persistent vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0242475050     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.08.045     Document Type: Article

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