Pre-attentive and attentive processing of temporal and frequency characteristics within long sounds

Grimm, Sabine; Schröger, Erich

doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.003

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“…Although the stimulus identification data only suggested a less clear vowel quantity categorization for the word-final vowel for the Germans, and the Germans indeed numerically showed a larger decrease of MMN amplitude here, the effect was observed for the Finnish participants as well, even though quantity oppositions frequently occur in word-final positions in the Finnish language. This might be related to findings that deviances in the initial part of a sound elicit larger MMNs than deviances in later parts (Grimm and Schröger, 2005;Sussman et al, 2004).…”

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Modulation of the mismatch negativity (MMN) to vowel duration changes in native speakers of Finnish and German as a result of language experience

Kirmse

Ylinen

Tervaniemi

et al. 2007

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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While crucial for phoneme distinctions in the Finnish language, mere vowel duration is of lower relevance as a phonetically distinctive cue in the German language. To investigate the pre-attentive processing of vowel duration between these two languages, the mismatch negativity (MMN), a component of the auditory event-related potential (ERP) that is an index of automatic auditory change detection, was measured in Finnish and German native speakers for vowel duration changes embedded in the pseudoword sasa. Vowel duration changes thereby were presented as a shortening or a lengthening of either the first- or second-syllable vowel. An additional non-speech condition measured the MMN to duration and frequency changes in tones. In both language groups, diminished MMN amplitudes for the shortening of vowel duration in the word-final syllable suggested a generally more difficult discrimination of vowel duration in a word-final position. Further, shorter MMN latencies for the Finns than the Germans for vowel duration as well as tone duration deviants suggested a generally higher sensitivity to duration contrasts in the Finnish language group. No latency difference between the groups was found for tone frequency processing. Moreover, the Finns, but not the Germans, showed a leftward shift of the MMN scalp distribution for changes in vowel duration, whereas the MMN topography was highly similar between both groups in the tone condition. An enhanced phonetic processing of vowel duration changes and possibly an enhanced processing of sound duration in general is thus indicated for the Finns as a result of their extensive linguistic experience with phonetically distinctive vowel duration contrasts in the native language.

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Section: Language Group Effects On Mmn Amplitudes and Latenciesmentioning

confidence: 81%

Modulation of the mismatch negativity (MMN) to vowel duration changes in native speakers of Finnish and German as a result of language experience

Kirmse

Ylinen

Tervaniemi

et al. 2007

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…This influence of temporal distance on MMN is termed the temporal distance effect (Grimm et al, 2006). However, when the temporal distance exceeds 350-ms MMN was found to be strongly attenuated (Näätänen et al, 2004) or even absent (Grimm and Schröger, 2005;Weise et al, 2010). From these findings Grimm and Schröger (2005) suggested that early parts of an unattended sound contribute more to the sound representation than its remainder.…”

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“…As shown recently, when sounds are not in the focus of attention the automatic deviance detection mechanism seems to operate most efficiently for deviances that occur within a few hundred milliseconds following the onset of simple sounds (Grimm and Schröger, 2005;Näätänen et al, 2004;Weise et al, 2010). By way of example, Grimm and Schröger (2005) found that by increasing the temporal distance of a deviance (e.g., a frequency modulation) relative to sound onset, the MMN amplitude decreased.…”

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The representation of unattended, segmented sounds: A mismatch negativity (MMN) study

Weise

Ritter

Schröger

2011

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Relevant for the current study are the MMN results regarding the detection of violations of temporal regularities. The MMN has been elicited by occasional decreases and increases in stimulus duration (Näätänen et al 1989;Winkler et al, 1996), shortenings of the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA; onset-to-onset interval) and the inter-stimulus interval (ISI; offset-to-onset interval; Nordby et al, 1988;Takegata et al, 2001), stimulus omissions (Yabe et al, 1997), and infrequent changes in the temporal structure of complex sounds (Grimm and Schröger, 2005;Winkler et al, 1998) and sound patterns (Müller and Schröger, 2007;Takegata et al, 2005;Winkler and Schröger, 1995). These studies provided evidence that the various temporal aspects of auditory stimulation are encoded in the memory underlying the MMN response and that the MMN is elicited by violations of temporal expectations (for a review, see Czigler et al, 2003).…”

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Detecting violations of temporal regularities in waking and sleeping two-month-old infants

Otte

Winkler

Braeken

et al. 2013

Biological Psychology

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Correctly processing rapid sequences of sounds is essential for developmental milestones, such as language acquisition. We investigated the sensitivity of two-month-old infants to violations of a temporal regularity, by recording event-related brain potentials (ERP) in an auditory oddball paradigm from 36 waking and 40 sleeping infants. Standard tones were presented at a regular 300 ms inter-stimulus interval (ISI). One deviant, otherwise identical to the standard, was preceded by a 100 ms ISI. Two other deviants, presented with the standard ISI, differed from the standard in their spectral makeup. We found significant differences between ERP responses elicited by the standard and each of the deviant sounds. The results suggest that the ability to extract both temporal and spectral regularities from a sound sequence is already functional within the first few months of life.The scalp distribution of all three deviant-stimulus responses was influenced by the infants" state of alertness.

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Pre-attentive and attentive processing of temporal and frequency characteristics within long sounds

Cited by 32 publications

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Modulation of the mismatch negativity (MMN) to vowel duration changes in native speakers of Finnish and German as a result of language experience

Modulation of the mismatch negativity (MMN) to vowel duration changes in native speakers of Finnish and German as a result of language experience

The representation of unattended, segmented sounds: A mismatch negativity (MMN) study

Detecting violations of temporal regularities in waking and sleeping two-month-old infants

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