Auditory cortical change detection in adults with Asperger syndrome

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 414, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 136-140

  Lepistö, Tuulia ^a,b   Nieminen von Wendt, Taina ^c,d   von Wendt, Lennart ^c,d   Näätänen, Risto ^a,b   Kujala, Teija ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d Dextra Medical Centre   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Auditory; Discrimination; Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity (MMN); P3a

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGING; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847072139     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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