Clinical Neurophysiology
Volume 120, Issue 1 , Pages 51-59 , January 2009

Mismatch Negativity (MMN) evoked by sound duration contrasts: An unexpected major effect of deviance direction on amplitudes

  • C. Colin

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Recherches en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Clinique de Neurophysiologie, Bat. EM (rotonde–1) Hôspital Brugmann, 4, Place Van Gehuchten, B-1020 Brussels Belgium. Tel.: +32 2 477 22 86; fax: +32 2 477 24 56.
    • ,
  • I. Hoonhorst

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Recherches en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium
    • FNRS, Bruxelles, Belgium
    • ,
  • E. Markessis

      Affiliations

    • Faculté de Médecine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium
    • ,
  • M. Radeau

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Recherches en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium
    • ,
  • M. de Tourtchaninoff

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Neurophysiologie, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain (U.C.L.), Bruxelles, Belgium
    • ,
  • A. Foucher

      Affiliations

    • UMR 7593 CNRS-Paris VI, CHU Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France
    • ,
  • G. Collet

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Recherches en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium
    • Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium
    • ,
  • P. Deltenre

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Recherches en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium
    • Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie Clinique, Hôpital Brugmann, Bruxelles, Belgium

,Accepted 3 October 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.10.002

Clinical Neurophysiology
Volume 120, Issue 1 , Pages 51-59 , January 2009

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