Neurophysiological evidence for cortical discrimination impairment of prosody in Asperger syndrome

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 383, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 260-265

  Kujala, T ^a   Lepisto T ^a   Nieminen Von Wendt, T ^b   Naatanen P ^a   Naatanen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Auditory processing; Emotion; Mismatch negativity; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 20444396914     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.04.048     Document Type: Article

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