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  • Title: ERP correlates of pre-attentive processing of Cantonese lexical tones: The effects of pitch contour and pitch height.
    Author: Tsang YK, Jia S, Huang J, Chen HC.
    Journal: Neurosci Lett; 2011 Jan 10; 487(3):268-72. PubMed ID: 20970477.
    Abstract:
    The pre-attentive processing of Cantonese tones was studied with an auditory passive oddball paradigm. Event-related potentials to standard and deviant auditory stimuli were recorded as participants watched a silent movie attentively. The standards and deviants differed in either pitch level or pitch contour. Mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a were elicited by all types of deviant tones, suggesting that lexical tone was processed pre-attentively. In addition, the size and latency of MMN were sensitive to the size of pitch level change, while the latency of P3a captured the presence of pitch contour change. These results indicate that pitch contour and pitch height are two important dimensions in sensory processing of lexical tones.
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