The preattentive processing of major vs. minor chords in the human brain: An event-related potential study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 487, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 406-410

  Virtala, Paula ^a,b   Berg, Venla ^a   Kivioja, Maari ^a   Purhonen, Juha ^a   Salmenkivi, Marko ^a   Paavilainen, Petri ^a   Tervaniemi, Mari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERP); Human audition; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Music perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650520897     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.10.066     Document Type: Article

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