Abstracts of Papers to be Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research.

This article presents abstracts of papers to be presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research to be held October 15-19, 1997. In informs that mismatch negativity is an event-related potential elicited by deviant sounds occurring in a sequence of repeating sounds. The phonological mismatch negativity is an event-related potential component that has been shown in several studies to be sensitive to the initial phoneme of a word that ends a spoken sentence incongruously or congruously but unexpectedly.