EJN Call for Papers – The Neuronal Basis of Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and Its Clinical Applications

Organiser: European Journal of Neuroscience (EJN)

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Registration Deadline: 30 May 2025

The Neuronal Basis of Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and Its Clinical Applications

Submission deadline: Friday, 30 May 2025

We are thrilled to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue on the Neuronal Basis of Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and Its Clinical Applications. This special issue is dedicated to the study of mismatch negativity and the research legacy of Professor Risto Näätänen, who passed away on 5 October 2023. Professor Näätänen discovered mismatch negativity with his research group and first reported on it in 1978. Since then, the MMN has become a widely used tool in the study of auditory-cognitive functions worldwide. The MMN is typically recorded from the scalp of human participants and serves as a neural correlate for change detection in different types of sounds, such as speech sounds and musical features. MMN has subsequently been linked to the theory of predictive coding, and its neural mechanisms have been studied in animal models. MMN has also provided insights into changes in sensory and cognitive functions in aging and in various clinical conditions.

The 10th Mismatch Negativity Conference (MMN 2024), held from 17-19 September, brought together nearly 200 researchers in the historic city of Salamanca, Spain. We now invite all participants, and any other researchers using MMN, to submit their manuscripts to this special issue. Studies using auditory MMN, its visual and somatosensory counterparts, and single cell correlates in studies of sensory and cognitive functions in humans and animals are welcome. Empirical studies, reviews, meta-analyses or theoretical articles can be submitted. Rejection of the null hypothesis will not be decisive in the publication decision; both positive and negative results will be considered, provided that the work is well-designed, based on clear hypotheses, and methodologically sound.

Topics of interest for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:

  • Neuronal basis of MMN;
  • Developmental changes in MMN;
  • Predictive processing in the sensory and cognitive systems;
  • MMN in investigations of musical expertise;
  • Speech and language related cognitive functions;
  • MMN in clinical populations and in aging.

Status: Open