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  • Title: Brain responses reveal hardwired detection of native-language rule violations.
    Author: Aaltonen O, Hellström A, Peltola MS, Savela J, Tamminen H, Lehtola H.
    Journal: Neurosci Lett; 2008 Oct 17; 444(1):56-9. PubMed ID: 18706481.
    Abstract:
    Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a neural correlate of the preattentive detection of any change in the acoustic characteristics of sounds. Here we provide evidence that violations of a purely phonological constraint in a listener's native language can also elicit the brain's automatic change-detection response. The MMN differed between Finnish and Estonian listeners, conditions being equal except for the native language of the listeners. We used two experimental conditions: synthetic vowels in isolation and the same vowels embedded in a pseudo-word context. MMN responses to isolated vowels were similar for Finns and Estonians, while the same vowels in a pseudoword context elicited different MMN patterns depending on the listener's mother tongue.
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