Mental ability and mismatch negativity: Pre-attentive discrimination of abstract feature conjunctions in auditory sequences

Intelligence

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-244

  Houlihan, Michael ^a   Stelmack, Robert M ^b  

^a ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abstract discrimination; Mental ability; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859850159     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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