Personal significance is encoded automatically by the human brain: An event-related potential study with ringtones

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 784-790

  Roye, Anja ^a   Jacobsen, Thomas ^a   Schröger, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional orienting; Deviance detection; Event related potential (ERP); Mismatch negativity (MMN); P3a

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CELLULAR PHONE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34547629764     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05685.x     Document Type: Article

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