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Event-Related Brain Potential Indices of Involuntary Attention to Auditory Stimulus Changes

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Detection of Change

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As first reported by (Näätänen, Gaillard, and Mäntysalo 1978, 1980), infrequent (“deviant”) sounds occurring in a sequence of repetitive (“standard”) sounds elicit the mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related brain potential (ERP), even when the listener is instructed to attend to other stimuli. MMN is seen as a negative-polarity displacement of the ERP to deviant sounds in relation to the ERP from standard sounds around 100–200 milliseconds from deviant-event onset (see Figure 1). As in the early reports of Näätänen and his colleagues, most subsequent MMN studies have applied tones as stimuli and deviancies in some simple feature (e.g., pitch, intensity, duration, or location) to elicit MMN (for a review, see Näätänen, 1992). However, MMN is also elicited by infrequent changes and irregularities in complex sounds, such as phonemes, syllables, chords, and tone patterns (for recent reviews, see Näätänen & Alho, 1997; Näätänen & Winkler, 1999; Schröger, 1997).

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