"What you encode is not necessarily what you store": Evidence for sparse feature representations from mismatch negativity

Brain Research

Volumn 1394, Issue , 2011, Pages 79-89

  Cornell, Sonia A ^a   Lahiri, Aditi ^b   Eulitz, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERP; Mental lexicon; Mismatch negativity; Phonological feature; Speech perception; Underspecification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956286110     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 00068993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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