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Judith Domínguez-Borràs1, Sina-Alexa Trautmann, Peter Erhard

  • 1Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, P. Vall d'Hebron 171, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
|November 11, 2008
PubMed
Summary

Emotional context impacts how the brain processes novel sounds. Negative emotional stimuli enhance auditory novelty processing in the superior temporal gyrus (STG), contrary to previous assumptions.

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