Mismatch negativity and auditory sensory memory evaluation: a new faster paradigm.
A new faster paradigm to measure the duration of auditory sensory memory, as indexed by mismatch negativity (MMN) suppression to stimuli presented at increasing inter-stimulus intervals (ISI), is proposed. Trains of three stimuli were delivered at very short ISI (300 ms). The inter-train interval varied according to the memory probe interval (MPI) tested. Trains started randomly with a deviant or standard stimulus (50% each), with their event-related brain potentials subtracted to obtain the MMN. The new paradigm provided MMNs identical to the conventional one at MPIs of 0.4 and 4.0 s in young subjects, and revealed MMN suppression when the MPI was increased to 5.0 s in older subjects. The new paradigm estimates auditory sensory memory duration in one-third the time of conventional MMN.
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Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D018913:Event-Related Potentials, P300 / Q000502:physiology; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*