Auditory size-deviant detection in adults and newborn infants

Biological Psychology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-175

  Vestergaard, Martin D ^a,b   Háden, Gábor P ^c   Shtyrov, Yury ^b   Patterson, Roy D ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^b   Denham, Sue L ^e   Sziller, István ^d   Winkler, István ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adults; Auditory system; Automatic source size pre processing; Electroencephalography (EEG); Glottal pulse rate (GPR); Mismatch negativity (MMN); Neonates; Size perception; Vocal tract length (VTL)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MUSIC; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249209613     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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