Abnormal frequency discrimination in children with SLI as indexed by mismatch negativity (MMN)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 413, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 99-104

  Rinker, Tanja ^a   Kohls, Gregor ^a,b   Richter, Cathrin ^a   Maas, Verena ^a   Schulz, Eberhard ^a   Schecker, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory processing deficit; Children; Event related potentials (ERP); Frequency discrimination; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Specific language impairment (SLI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33846612702     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.11.033     Document Type: Article

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