Speech-feature discrimination in children with Asperger syndrome as determined with the multi-feature mismatch negativity paradigm

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1410-1419

  Kujala, T ^a   Kuuluvainen, S ^a   Saalasti, S ^a   Jansson Verkasalo, E ^b,c   Wendt, L von ^a   Lepisto T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Auditory; Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

EID: 77955271957     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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