Brain responses reveal hardwired detection of native-language rule violations

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 444, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-59

  Aaltonen, Olli ^a,b   Hellström, Åke ^c   Peltola, Maija S ^b   Savela, Janne ^b   Tamminen, Henna ^b   Lehtola, Heidi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mismatch negativity; Phonological rules; Vowel harmony; Vowel perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TONGUE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50849094220     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.095     Document Type: Article

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