The ontogenetically earliest discriminative response of the human brain

Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 478-481

  Cheour Luhtanen, M ^a   Alho, K ^a   Sainio, K ^a   Rinne, T ^a   Reinikainen, K ^a   Pohjavuori, M ^a   Renlund, M ^a   Aaltonen, O ^b   Eerola, O ^b   Naatanen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory discrimination; Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity; Preterm infants; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; ONTOGENY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 8944261591     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1996.tb01074.x     Document Type: Article

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