AEPs from 16 healthy children between the ages of 5 and 7 were elicited using a multi-deviant design including: frequency, duration, intensity, and gap.
In addition we recorded event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in a passive listening task with frequent standard and infrequent pitch deviants designed to elicit the mismatch negativity (MMN).
This study used an active multiple-deviant oddball design to investigate the time-course of normalization processes that help listeners deal with between-speaker variability.
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Children who displayed age-adequate expressive language skills later in development showed both an early and a late negative mismatch response (MMR) when processing the native language stress pattern as deviant in a passive oddball design.
In this study, we measured the event related potential (ERP) and event related optical signal (EROS) responses elicited by pitch deviants in a parametric design.
The "traditional" use of the Positive Deviance approach to behavior change involves studying children who thrive despite adversity, identifying uncommon model behaviors among Positive Deviant families, and then designing and implementing an intervention to replicate these behaviors among mothers of malnourished children.
So far MMN is assessed with different methods (electroencephalography, EEG; magnetoencephalography, MEG) and with different paradigms: the "traditional" oddball design with rare deviants (20%) or the "optimum" design with 50% deviants varying in one of five parameters each.
In a sequence of randomly changing disyllabic pseudo-words produced by one male speaker in neutral intonation, a traditional oddball design with emotional deviants (10% happy and angry each) and an optimum design with emotional (17% happy and sad each) and nonemotional gender deviants (17% female) elicited the mismatch responses.
The outliers were assigned mainly to the extreme positions (1 or 3) in the triplet to simulate more closely the "oddball" design in which the deviant is surrounded by repetitive standards.
Deviants within a modified multi-feature design differed either in duration or spectral property.
