Processing acoustic change and novelty in newborn infants

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 265-274

  Kushnerenko, Elena ^a,b,c   Winkler, István ^b,d   Horváth, János ^d   Näätänen, Risto ^b,e   Pavlov, Ivan ^f   Fellman, Vineta ^g,h   Huotilainen, Minna ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^e Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Auditory event related potentials (ERPs); Mismatch negativity (MMN); Orienting; P3a; Spectral width

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEWBORN; NOISE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; STANDARD; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NOISE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 34447131563     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05628.x     Document Type: Article

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