An asymmetry in the automatic detection of the presence or absence of a frequency modulation within a tone: A mismatch negativity study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Timm, Jana ^a   Weise, Annekathrin ^a   Grimm, Sabine ^b   Schröger, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic deviance detection; Event related brain potentials; Feature inclusion exclusion; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856591552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00189     Document Type: Article

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