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Open AccessPassive exposure to speech sounds induces long-term memory representations in the auditory cortex of adult rats
Experience-induced changes in the functioning of the auditory cortex are prominent in early life, especially during a critical period. Although auditory perceptual learning takes place automatically during thi...
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Mismatch Negativity (MMN) as an Index of Cognitive Dysfunction
Cognition is often affected in a variety of neuropsychiatric, neurological, and neurodevelopmental disorders. The neural discriminative response, reflected in mismatch negativity (MMN) and its magnetoencephalo...
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Effects of alcohol on auditory pre-attentive processing of four sound features: evidence from mismatch negativity
Studies have shown that alcohol could impair automatic pre-attentive change detection. However, several earlier studies which investigated alcohol-induced effects on single auditory feature independently were ...
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Open AccessStatistical language learning in neonates revealed by event-related brain potentials
Statistical learning is a candidate for one of the basic prerequisites underlying the expeditious acquisition of spoken language. Infants from 8 months of age exhibit this form of learning to segment fluent sp...
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Atypical Auditory Event-Related Potentials in Preterm Infants during the First Year of Life: A Possible Sign of Cognitive Dysfunction?
We assessed auditory event-related potentials in small-for-gestational-age (SGA; 850 ± 258 g, 28.9 ± 3.3 gestational wk; n = 15) and appropriate for gestational age (AGA; 1014 ± 231 g, 26.9 ± 1.9 gestational wk;
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Preattentive auditory context effects
The effects of auditory context on the preattentive and perceptual organization of tone sequences were investigated. Two sets of experiments were conducted in which the pitch of contextual tones was varied, br...
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Auditory Environment and Change Detection as Indexed by the Mismatch Negativity (MMN)
Mismatch negativity (MMN) is an automatic event-related brain potential (ERP) that reflects a change in auditory stimulation and provides a unique measure of central sound representation. The electrically regi...
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Dose-dependent suppression by ethanol of transient auditory 40-Hz response
Rationale: Acute alcohol (ethanol) challenge is known to induce various cognitive disturbances, yet the neural basis of the effect is poorly known. The auditory transient evoked gamma-ba...
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Speaking in tongues
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Frequency Change Detection in Human Auditory Cortex
We offer a model of how human cortex detects changes in the auditory environment. Auditory change detection has recently been the object of intense investigation via the mismatch negativity (MMN). MMN is a pre...
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Electrophysiological indices of acute effects of ethanol on involuntary attention shifting
Dose-related effects of ethanol (placebo, 0.30, and 0.60 g/kg) on behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) indices of involuntary attention shifting of audition were investigated. ERPs were recorded...
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Development of language-specific phoneme representations in the infant brain
Studies using behavioral methods, such as head-turning experiments, in which children are conditioned to turn their heads toward the sound source when they detect a change in the sound, have shown that environ...
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Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses
There is considerable debate about whether the early processing of sounds depends on whether they form part of speech. Proponents of such speech specificity postulate the existence of language-dependent memory...
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Event-related brain potentials reflect traces of echoic memory in humans
In sequences of identical auditory stimuli, infrequent deviant stimuli elicit an event-related brain potential component called mismatch negativity (MMN). MMN is presumed to reflect the existence of a memory t...
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Neuromagnetic Responses of the Human Auditory Cortex to Different Types of Infrequent Deviant Stimuli
An infrequent “deviant” auditory stimulus presented among repetitive “standard” stimuli elicits a specific EEG signal termed the mismatch negativity (MMN; Näätänen et al., 1978) which is not seen in responses ...
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The Orienting Response; A Combination of Informational and Energetical Aspects of Brain Function
The orienting response (OR) or orienting reflex continues to be one of the most central concepts of psychophysiology. In a way, this concept has become even too popular. It has grown too broad to serve as a ve...
