Processing of abstract rule violations in audition.

The ability to encode rules and to detect rule-violating events outside the focus of attention is vital for adaptive behavior. Our brain recordings reveal that violations of abstract auditory rules are processed even when the sounds are unattended. When subjects performed a task related to the sound...

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Main Authors: Erich Schröger, Alexandra Bendixen, Nelson J Trujillo-Barreto, Urte Roeber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2043487?pdf=render