Separating acoustic deviance from novelty during the first year of life: A review of event-related potential evidence

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Kushnerenko, Elena V ^a   Van den Bergh, Bea R H ^b,c   Winkler, István ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Research Centre for Natural Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Distraction; Event related potential (ERP); Infants; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Novelty detection; Oddball paradigm; Orienting; Passive auditory attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885357110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00595     Document Type: Review

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