Mismatch negativity reflects numbers of tones of specific frequencies in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 436, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-140

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Auditory; Event related potential; Human; Mismatch negativity; Number

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 41949135837     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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