The Mismatch Negativity (MMN) – a Unique Window to Disturbed Central Auditory Processing in Ageing and Different Clinical Conditions ⇑ R
Clinical Neurophysiology 123 (2012) 424–458 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Clinical Neurophysiology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/clinph Invited Review The mismatch negativity (MMN) – A unique window to disturbed central auditory processing in ageing and different clinical conditions ⇑ R. Näätänen a,b,c, , T. Kujala c,d, C. Escera e,f, T. Baldeweg g,h, K. Kreegipuu a, S. Carlson i,j,k, C. Ponton l a Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia b Center of Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark c Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Cognitive Science, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland d Cicero Learning, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland e Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior (IR3C), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain f Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain g Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK h Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children NHS Trust, London, UK i Neuroscience Unit, Institute of Biomedicine/Physiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland j Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Espoo, Finland k Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland l Compumedics NeuroScan, Santa Fe, NM, USA article info highlights Article history: The mismatch negativity (MMN) indexes different types of central auditory abnormalities in different Accepted 20 September 2011 neuropsychiatric, neurological, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Available online 13 December 2011 The diminished amplitude/prolonged peak latency observed in patients usually indexes decreased audi- tory discrimination. Keywords: An MMN deficit may also index cognitive and functional decline shared by different disorders irrespec- The mismatch negativity (MMN) tive of their specific aetiology and symptomatology.
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