Brain responses reveal hardwired detection of native-language rule violations Export

@article{aaltonenetal08, abstract = {Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a neural correlate of the preattentive detection of any change in the acoustic characteristics of sounds. Here we provide evidence that violations of a purely phonological constraint in a listener's native language can also elicit the brain's automatic change-detection response. The MMN differed between Finnish and Estonian listeners, conditions being equal except for the native language of the listeners. We used two experimental conditions: synthetic vowels in isolation and the same vowels embedded in a pseudo-word context. MMN responses to isolated vowels were similar for Finns and Estonians, while the same vowels in a pseudoword context elicited different MMN patterns depending on the listener's mother tongue.}, author = {Aaltonen, Olli and Hellstr\"{o}m, \r{A}ke and Peltola, Maija S. and Savela, Janne and Tamminen, Henna and Lehtola, Heidi}, citeulike-article-id = {3204093}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.095}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T0G-4T5TPRY-1/2/aea6156beed689cb440e05598d9d62b0}, day = {17}, doi = {10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.095}, journal = {Neuroscience Letters}, keywords = {acoustics, cognition, comprehension, estonia, finnish, mmn}, month = {October}, number = {1}, pages = {56--59}, posted-at = {2008-09-08 08:46:32}, priority = {2}, title = {Brain responses reveal hardwired detection of native-language rule violations}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.095}, volume = {444}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - aaltonenetal08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3204093 N2 - Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a neural correlate of the preattentive detection of any change in the acoustic characteristics of sounds. Here we provide evidence that violations of a purely phonological constraint in a listener's native language can also elicit the brain's automatic change-detection response. The MMN differed between Finnish and Estonian listeners, conditions being equal except for the native language of the listeners. We used two experimental conditions: synthetic vowels in isolation and the same vowels embedded in a pseudo-word context. MMN responses to isolated vowels were similar for Finns and Estonians, while the same vowels in a pseudoword context elicited different MMN patterns depending on the listener's mother tongue. IS - 1 JF - Neuroscience Letters EP - 59 TI - Brain responses reveal hardwired detection of native-language rule violations VL - 444 SP - 56 KW - acoustics KW - cognition KW - comprehension KW - estonia KW - finnish KW - mmn AU - Aaltonen, Olli AU - Hellström, Åke AU - Peltola, Maija AU - Savela, Janne AU - Tamminen, Henna AU - Lehtola, Heidi PY - 2008/10/17/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.095 ER -