Preperceptual human number sense for sequential sounds, as revealed by mismatch negativity brain response?

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2777-2779

  Ruusuvirta, Timo ^a   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,b   Näätänen, Risto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory event related potential; Human; Mismatch negativity; Preattentive

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 36249018358     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm005     Document Type: Article

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