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Brain Responses Reveal Hardwired Detection of Native-Language Rule Violations

Olli Aaltonen, Åke Hellström, Maija Peltola, Janne Savela, Henna Tamminen, Brain Responses Reveal Hardwired Detection of Native-Language Rule Violations. Neuroscience Letters 444, 56–59, 2008.

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.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jAaHePeSaTa08a,
  title = {Brain Responses Reveal Hardwired Detection of Native-Language Rule Violations},
  author = {Aaltonen, Olli and Hellström, Åke and Peltola, Maija and Savela, Janne and Tamminen, Henna},
  journal = {Neuroscience Letters},
  volume = {444},
  pages = {56–59},
  year = {2008},
}

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