“…This means that hearing a deviant /f/ token in a stream of /s/ tokens could amount to detecting a decrease in energy or an absence of information, whereas hearing a deviant /s/ token in a stream of /f/ tokens would amount to detecting an increase of energy or an addition of information. 8 There is indeed ample evidence that a deviant which is missing an acoustic feature present in the standards elicits an attenuated MMN (or no MMN at all) compared to a deviant which has an additional acoustic feature not present in the standards (Nordby, Hammerborg, Roth, & Hugdahl, 1994 ; Sabri & Campbell, 2000 ; Timm, Weise, Grimm, & Schröger, 2011 ; see also Czigler, Sulykos, & Kecskés-Kovács, 2014 , for a corresponding effect in the visual counterpart of the MMN). While these studies all used non-linguistic stimuli, similar asymmetries based on feature salience have been seen for linguistic stimuli in behavioural studies (Nielsen, 2011 ; Nielsen & Scarborough, 2015 ).…”