TY - T1 - Neural discrimination of speech sound changes in a variable context occurs irrespective of attention and explicit awareness SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/233761 T3 - A1 - Virtala, Paula; Partanen, Eino; Tervaniemi, Mari; Kujala, Teija A2 - PB - Y1 - 2018 LA - eng AB - To process complex stimuli like language, our auditory system must tolerate large acoustic variance, like speaker variability, and still be sensitive enough to discriminate between phonemes and to detect complex sound relationships in, e.g., prosodic cues. Our study determined discrimination of speech sounds in input mimicking natural speech variability, and detection of deviations in regular pitch relationships (rule violations) between speech sounds. We investigated the automaticity and the in... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 515 Psychology; Auditory processing; speech processing; AUDITORY ATTENTION; EEG; ERPs; MMN; P3a; mismatch-negativity; AUDITORY-STIMULI; HUMAN BRAIN; abstract regularities; TIME-COURSE; FEATURES; PERCEPTION; duration; representation; POTENTIALS; 516 Educational sciences N1 - PP - ER -