The present study addresses the functional role of the temporal and frontal lobes in auditory
change detection. Prior event-related potential (ERP) research suggested that the mismatch …

This article reviews recent event-related brain potential (ERP) studies of involuntary attention
and distractibility in response to novelty and change in the acoustic environment. These …

Mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the event-related brain potentials has become
popular in cognitive and clinical brain research during the recent years. It is an early response …

THE present study focuses on influences of long-term experience on auditory processing,
providing the first evidence for pre-attentively superior auditory processing in musicians. This …

Previous electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies suggest that the mismatch negativity
(MMN) is generated by a temporofrontal network subserving preattentive auditory change …

The auditory system essentially deals with sequential type of input and thus requires processing
that is particularly suited to extract stimulus relations within a sequence. Evidence from …

Only little systematic research has examined event-related brain potentials (ERPs) elicited by
the cognitive processing of music. The present study investigated how music processing is …

The conscious perception of infrequent deviant sounds occurring in a series of frequent
standard sounds may in part be based on the output of an obligatorily operating deviance …

WE investigated event-related potential indications for the orienting towards task-irrelevant,
distracting aspects of stimulation and for the subsequent reorienting towards task-related …

One function of working memory is to protect current mental processes against interference.
In contrast, to be able to react flexibly on unpredictable environmental changes working …