Publications by authors named "Erik van Berlekom"
Article Synopsis
- The mismatch negativity (MMN) is significant in studying auditory perception as it detects changes in sound by comparing deviant and standard tones during an oddball task.
- Recent research aimed to explore whether visual task difficulty affects MMN, but this study, using rigorous methods, found no strong evidence for such an effect, challenging earlier biased findings.
- Additionally, working memory capacity did not show a correlation with how visual load impacted MMN, reinforcing that auditory processing remains stable despite varying visual demands.
The mismatch negativity (MMN) has been widely studied with oddball tasks to index processing of unexpected auditory change. The MMN is computed as the difference of deviant minus standard and is used to capture the pattern violation by the deviant. However, this oddball MMN is confounded because the deviant differs physically from the standard and is presented less often.
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