Mental ability and the discrimination of auditory frequency and duration change without focused attention: An analysis of mismatch negativity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 228-233

  Troche, Stefan J ^a   Houlihan, Michael E ^b   Stelmack, Robert M ^c   Rammsayer, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination ability; Event related potentials; Mental ability; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952884244     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.040     Document Type: Article

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