Auditory processing and sensory behaviours in children with autism spectrum disorders as revealed by mismatch negativity

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 55-63

  Ludlow, Amanda ^a,b   Mohr, Bettina ^c   Whitmore, Antony ^d   Garagnani, Max ^e   Pulvermüller, Friedmann ^e   Gutierrez, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; EEG; Language; Sensory behaviours

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUTISM; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOW REGISTRATION; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION SEEKING; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY AVOIDANCE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY SENSITIVITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AUDITORY PROCESSING; EEG; LANGUAGE; SENSORY BEHAVIOURS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896734928     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2014.01.016     Document Type: Article

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