Atypical pattern of discriminating sound features in adults with Asperger syndrome as reflected by the mismatch negativity

Biological Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-114

  Kujala, T ^a,b,c   Aho, E ^a   Lepisto T ^a,b   Jansson Verkasalo, E ^a,d   Nieminen von Wendt, T ^a,e   von Wendt, L ^a,e   Naatanen R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e Dextra Medical Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Auditory processing; Autism spectrum; Event related brain potentials; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947172433     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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