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Timing in the baby brain.

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Brannon, EM; Roussel, LW; Meck, WH; Woldorff, M
Published in: Brain Res Cogn Brain Res
October 2004

Ten-month-old infants and adults were tested in an auditory oddball paradigm in which 50-ms tones were separated by 1500 ms (standard interval) and occasionally 500 ms (deviant interval). Both infants and adults showed marked brain responses to the tone that followed a deviant inter-stimulus interval (ISI). Specifically, the timing-deviance event-related-potential (ERP) difference waves (deviant-ISI ERP minus standard-ISI ERP) yielded a significant, fronto-centrally distributed, mismatch negativity (MMN) in the latency range of 120-240 ms post-stimulus for infants and 110-210 ms for adults. A robust, longer latency, deviance-related positivity was also obtained for infants (330-520 ms), with a much smaller and later deviance-related positivity observed for adults (585-705 ms). These results suggest that the 10-month-old infant brain has already developed some of the same mechanisms as adults for detecting deviations in the timing of stimulus events.

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Brain Res Cogn Brain Res

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ISSN

0926-6410

Publication Date

October 2004

Volume

21

Issue

2

Start / End Page

227 / 233

Location

Netherlands

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Time Factors
  • Male
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Evoked Potentials, Auditory
  • Electroencephalography
  • Brain Mapping
 

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Brannon, E. M., Roussel, L. W., Meck, W. H., & Woldorff, M. (2004). Timing in the baby brain. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 21(2), 227–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.04.007
Brannon, Elizabeth M., Lauren Wolfe Roussel, Warren H. Meck, and Marty Woldorff. “Timing in the baby brain.Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 21, no. 2 (October 2004): 227–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.04.007.
Brannon EM, Roussel LW, Meck WH, Woldorff M. Timing in the baby brain. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2004 Oct;21(2):227–33.
Brannon, Elizabeth M., et al. “Timing in the baby brain.Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, vol. 21, no. 2, Oct. 2004, pp. 227–33. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.04.007.
Brannon EM, Roussel LW, Meck WH, Woldorff M. Timing in the baby brain. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2004 Oct;21(2):227–233.
Journal cover image

Published In

Brain Res Cogn Brain Res

DOI

ISSN

0926-6410

Publication Date

October 2004

Volume

21

Issue

2

Start / End Page

227 / 233

Location

Netherlands

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Time Factors
  • Male
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Evoked Potentials, Auditory
  • Electroencephalography
  • Brain Mapping