Mental ability and mismatch negativity: Pre-attentive discrimination of abstract feature conjunctions in auditory sequences

Houlihan, Michael; Stelmack, Robert M.

doi:10.1016/j.intell.2012.02.003

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“…The current findings contrast with studies reporting correlations between intelligence and the MMN in the auditory domain. Although results for individual studies are mixed, the overarching picture suggests larger MMN amplitudes (Sculthorpe et al, 2009;Troche et al, 2009Troche et al, , 2010, faster MMN latencies (e.g., Bazana & Stelmack, 2002;Beauchamp & Stelmack, 2006), or both (De Pascalis & Varriale, 2012;De Pascalis et al, 2014;Houlihan & Stelmack, 2012), in higher ability participants. At least one other study also examined the relation between intelligence and a version of the vMMN.…”

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“…As stimuli are typically presented outside the focus of attention, the MMN is suggested to capture automatic pre-attentive discrimination processes (Näätänen et al, 2007). Associations between higher intelligence and larger (i.e., more negative) MMN amplitudes have been observed in multiple studies (De Pascalis et al, 2014;De Pascalis & Varriale, 2012;Houlihan & Stelmack, 2012;Sculthorpe et al, 2009;Troche et al, 2009Troche et al, , 2010 as well as a relation between higher intelligence and shorter MMN latencies (De Pascalis et al, 2014;De Pascalis & Varriale, 2012;Sculthorpe et al, 2009). However, associations were mostly of moderate effect size (~ r = -.15 to r = -.42) and different studies also failed to find respective relations (e.g., Bauchamp & Stelmack, 2006;De Pascalis & Varriale, 2012;Troche et al, 2010), suggesting a more heterogeneous picture.…”

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“…The study of event-related brain potentials (ERP) with electroencephalographic recordings during a specific task allows to more directly study the relation between variability in intelligence and its association with process parameters. Beyond the P3 (i.e., the third positive deflection to a specific consciously detected stimulus; Luck, 2014), the auditory mismatchnegativity (MMN) has evolved as promising marker of individual differences of intelligence (e.g., De Pascalis et al, 2014;De Pascalis & Varriale, 2012;Houlihan & Stelmack, 2012;Sculthorpe et al, 2009;Troche et al, 2009Troche et al, , 2010. In general, the MMN is elicited when, within a series of frequent standard stimuli, rare deviant stimuli are presented (e.g., tones of higher pitch).…”

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“…The auditory mismatch-negativity (MMN) has evolved as promising marker of individual differences in intelligence (e.g., De Pascalis et al, 2014;De Pascalis & Varriale, 2012;Houlihan & Stelmack, 2012;Sculthorpe et al, 2009;Troche et al, 2009Troche et al, , 2010. In general, the MMN is elicited when, within a series of frequent standard stimuli, rare deviant stimuli are presented (e.g., tones of higher pitch).…”

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Intelligence and Visual Mismatch Negativity: Is Pre-Attentive Visual Discrimination Related to General Cognitive Ability?

Hilger

Euler

2022

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Intelligence captures the cognitive ability level of an individual person and electroencephalography (EEG) has been used for decades to identify neurocognitive processes related to intelligence. The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a component of the event-related brain potential (ERP) that is elicited when, within a series of frequent standard stimuli, rare deviant stimuli are presented. As stimuli are typically presented outside the focus of attention, the MMN is suggested to capture automatic pre-attentive discrimination processes, and mixed results have been reported in relation to intelligence. However, the MMN and its relation to intelligence has only been studied in the auditory domain, thus preventing any conclusion about the involvement of automatic discrimination processes in humans dominant sensory modality, i.e., vision. Here we provide a first test of this question. Electroencephalography was recorded from 50 healthy participants during a passive visual oddball task that presented simple sequence violations as well as deviations within a more complex hidden pattern. Signed area amplitudes and fractional area latencies of the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) were calculated with and without Laplacian transformation. Neither vMMN amplitudes nor vMMN latencies were significantly related to intelligence (Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices, RAPM) and Bayes Factors suggest moderate evidence for the absence of associations. Our study presents the first test of whether neural indices of pre-attentive visual discrimination processes are related to intelligence. We discuss critical differences between the auditory and visual MMN and conclude with a discussion of limitations and recommendations for further research in this evolving field.

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Intelligence and Visual Mismatch Negativity: Is Pre-Attentive Visual Discrimination Related to General Cognitive Ability?

Hilger

Euler

2022

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“…Similar to most MMN studies, difference waveforms were calculated by subtracting the ERPs of deviants with that of the physically identical standards for each condition in the current study. Based on the procedure in previous studies 18 , 59 , 60 , vMMNs were measured as an averaged response across a 40 ms period from the difference waveform of each condition. The 40 ms averaging period was centered at the peak negative response in a 150 to 400 ms time window after the stimulus onset.…”

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Belief in biological origin of race (racial essentialism) increases sensitivities to cultural category changes measured by ERP mismatch negativity (MMN)

Zeng

Xiao

Wang

et al. 2022

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The dynamic multicultural view explains culture-specific effects on cognition that cultural knowledge is organized in multiple knowledge systems which are specific to each culture and differentially activated when exposed to related objects or scenes. This view predicts automatic categorizations of environmental information according to the culture-specific knowledge systems. This study investigated whether cultural information could be spontaneously categorized, and the modulation of this process by the belief in the biological origin of race (i.e., racial essentialism) with an event-related brain potential, the visual Mismatch Negativity (vMMN). Deviant pictures of Eastern (Western) culture were randomly presented in a stream of standard Western (Eastern) pictures while participants were playing a video game. Participants who endorse racial essentialism (high group) showed vMMNs to the deviants with high relevance to the Eastern or Western culture and the deviant with low Eastern relevance; while participants with low racial essentialism showed vMMN to the deviant with high Eastern relevance only. These results revealed spontaneous cultural categorization with vMMN and the top-down modulation of spontaneous categorization by personal belief. In addition, this is the first demonstration of MMNs to cultural deviance and the potentials in applying MMNs to study psychological essentialism and social categorization.

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The mismatch-negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential to violations of abstract regularities: A review

Paavilainen

2013

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Mental ability and mismatch negativity: Pre-attentive discrimination of abstract feature conjunctions in auditory sequences

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Intelligence and Visual Mismatch Negativity: Is Pre-Attentive Visual Discrimination Related to General Cognitive Ability?

Intelligence and Visual Mismatch Negativity: Is Pre-Attentive Visual Discrimination Related to General Cognitive Ability?

Belief in biological origin of race (racial essentialism) increases sensitivities to cultural category changes measured by ERP mismatch negativity (MMN)

The mismatch-negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential to violations of abstract regularities: A review

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