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Mismatch negativity in children and adults, and effects of an attended task

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2000

HILARY GOMES ,
SOPHIE MOLHOLM ,
WALTER RITTER ,
DIANE KURTZBERG ,
NELSON COWAN  and
HERBERT G. VAUGHAN
HILARY GOMES
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, New York, USA Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
SOPHIE MOLHOLM
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, New York, USA Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
WALTER RITTER
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
DIANE KURTZBERG
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
NELSON COWAN
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
HERBERT G. VAUGHAN
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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Abstract

Attention has been shown to modulate the amplitude of the mismatch negativity (MMN) elicited by a small deviation in auditory stimuli in adults. The present study examined the effects of attention and deviant size on MMN amplitude in children. Children and adults were presented with sequences of tones containing standards (1000 Hz) and three deviants varying in degree of deviance from the standard (1050, 1200, and 1500 Hz). Tones were presented in three conditions: (1) while participants ignored them; (2) while participants listened to them and responded to all three deviants; and (3) while participants again ignored them. We found that the MMNs elicited by the hard deviant (1050 Hz) were larger when the children were actively discriminating the stimuli than when they were ignoring them. However, the MMNs elicited by the easy and medium deviants (1500 and 1200 Hz, respectively) in the children and by all three deviants in the adults were not affected by attention.

Keywords

Mismatch negativityAttentionChildrenDevelopmentAuditory event-related potentials
Type
Research Article
Information
Psychophysiology , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , November 2000 , pp. 807 - 816
Copyright
2000 Society for Psychophysiological Research

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