The 9th Mismatch Negativity Conference was organized by Prof. Hirooki Yabe in Fukushima (Japan). The conference took place on September 21-23rd, 2022, and included 49 oral presentations arranged in 12 symposia, 42 poster presentations, and three keynote speeches. The keynote speakers were Prof. Patricia Michie (University of Newcastle, Australia), Prof. Claude Alain (University of Toronto, Canada), and Prof. Carles Escera, head of the Brainlab (University of Barcelona).
The 9th MMN Conference was planned for 2021 but to the Covid-19 pandemic was postponed until this 2022. To allow for maximum participation, is was organized in a mix formant (face to face and online), and was a great success. The MMN conference series started in Helsinki (Finland) in 1998 and Barcelona (Catalonia-Spain) in 2020.
Carles Escera’s talk was entitled Neural encoding of speech sounds at birth and during early development. The talk presented the major results achieved by the Brainlab regarding the developmental trajectory of the frequency-following response (FFR), from birth to the age of on year, as well as sound exposure factors during pregnancy and fetal development conditions that influence the neonatal FFR. His participation was reported in local newspapers!
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We would like to thank Prof. Yabe and his team for the superb organization and their amazing hospitality.
