The mismatch negativity (MMN) in basic research of central auditory processing: a review

R Näätänen, P Paavilainen, T Rinne, K Alho - Clinical neurophysiology, 2007 - Elsevier
In the present article, the basic research using the mismatch negativity (MMN) and
analogous results obtained by using the magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other brain …

The mismatch negativity (MMN)–a unique window to disturbed central auditory processing in ageing and different clinical conditions

R Näätänen, T Kujala, C Escera, T Baldeweg… - Clinical …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this article, we review clinical research using the mismatch negativity (MMN), a change-
detection response of the brain elicited even in the absence of attention or behavioural task …

Auditory processing that leads to conscious perception: a unique window to central auditory processing opened by the mismatch negativity and related responses

R Näätänen, T Kujala, I Winkler - Psychophysiology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we will present a model of brain events leading to conscious perception in
audition. This represents an updated version of Näätänen's previous model of automatic and …

Rapid and direct encoding of numerosity in the visual stream

J Park, NK DeWind, MG Woldorff, EM Brannon - Cerebral cortex, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Humans are endowed with an intuitive number sense that allows us to perceive and
estimate numerosity without relying on language. It is controversial, however, as to whether …

Mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index of cognitive dysfunction

R Näätänen, ES Sussman, D Salisbury, VL Shafer - Brain topography, 2014 - Springer
Cognition is often affected in a variety of neuropsychiatric, neurological, and
neurodevelopmental disorders. The neural discriminative response, reflected in mismatch …

Language outside the focus of attention: the mismatch negativity as a tool for studying higher cognitive processes

F Pulvermüller, Y Shtyrov - Progress in neurobiology, 2006 - Elsevier
Which aspects of language and cognitive processing take place irrespective of whether
subjects focus their attention on incoming stimuli and are, in this sense, automatic? The …

The amusic brain: in tune, out of key, and unaware

I Peretz, E Brattico, M Järvenpää, M Tervaniemi - Brain, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Like language, music engagement is universal, complex and present early in life.
However,∼ 4% of the general population experiences a lifelong deficit in music perception …

The five myths of MMN: redefining how to use MMN in basic and clinical research

ES Sussman, S Chen, J Sussman-Fort, E Dinces - Brain Topography, 2014 - Springer
The goal of this review article is to redefine what the mismatch negativity (MMN) component
of event-related potentials reflects in auditory scene analysis, and to provide an overview of …

Automatic auditory intelligence: An expression of the sensory–cognitive core of cognitive processes

R Näätänen, P Astikainen, T Ruusuvirta… - Brain research …, 2010 - Elsevier
In this article, we present a new view on the nature of cognitive processes suggesting that
there is a common core, viz., automatic sensory–cognitive processes that form the basis for …

Evidence for a specific cross‐modal association deficit in dyslexia: An electrophysiological study of letter–speech sound processing

D Froyen, G Willems, L Blomert - Developmental science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The phonological deficit theory of dyslexia assumes that degraded speech sound
representations might hamper the acquisition of stable letter–speech sound associations …