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MMN 2026 — Detailed Program
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DAY 1WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER · Sensory processing and developmentSpeakers & presentation titles
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8:30–9:00Registration & Opening Ceremony
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9:00–10:00Keynote: Nicola Quaranta (University of Bari)"The Cognitive Ear in Aging"
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10:00–11:00Symposium 1: Mismatch responses as neural markers of speech processing in typically developing and at-risk children.
Organizer: Paula Virtala, University of Helsinki (4 speakers)		Virtala Paula: Neural speech sound discrimination in dyslexia-risk vs no-risk toddlers and effects of maturation and intervention - first results from the BusyBaby trial
Themas Liis: Mismatch responses to prosodic changes in children with developmental language disorder: a longitudinal approach
Navarrete Arroyo Sergio: Effects of dyslexia risk on neural speech sound processing from infancy to school-age with predictive associations to literacy
Ylinen Sari: Game based foreign language learning induces neuroplasticity in speech processing among school age children: an intervention study
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11:00–11:30TALKS — Speech and phonetic processing I11:00–11:15 Yasuaki Shinohara: Discriminative negativities for the phoneme /t/ and its allophones
11:15–11:30 Jacob Burger: Rotated speech and underspecification-driven MMN
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11:30–11:45Coffee break
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11:45–13:00Symposium 2: Auditory structure and novelty processing through the eyes.
Organizer: Maria Chait (University College London). 5 speakers		Bidet-Caulet & Mathieu: Pupillary and EEG responses to auditory deviance across development
Wetzel: Pupil-linked attention and distraction across the lifespan
Fiedeler: Pupillary markers of relevant and irrelevant background sounds
Vachon: Pupil dilation as an index of auditory sequence learning
Chait: Ocular markers of structure learning and arousal in sound sequences
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13:00–13:30TALKS — Speech and language processing II13:00–13:15 Carles Escera: A novel combined Frequency-Following Response (FFR) and mismatch negativity (MMN) multi-feature paradigm for efficient testing of speech encoding and phonetic discrimination
13:15–13:30 Sofia Lutter: Neural processing of Estonian quantity contrasts in native, bilingual and naive listeners: MMN amplitudes, MMN latencies and LDN amplitudes
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13:30–14:40LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION 1POSTER SESSION 1 — SENSORY PROCESSING & DEVELOPMENT

SPEECH, LANGUAGE & DEVELOPMENTAL MMN
P01 Sergio Navarrete-Arroyo: Dyslexia susceptibility genes are associated with reduced mismatch responses in preschoolers
P02 Valerie L. Shafer: Neural detection of sequential pattern violations in preschool children and adults
P03 Peixin Nie: Impact of early screen time exposure on neural speech processing and language development of pre-school children with and without dyslexia risk
P04 Beatrice Aquilino: BusyBaby music intervention: effects on neural speech sound processing and language abilities in infants at risk for dyslexia
P05 Yu Yan: Neural network for Mandarin lexical tone processing in children with tonal and nontonal language backgrounds using a machine learning approach
P06 Emilia Takaluoma: Immature mismatch responses to speech sounds in very preterm children with poor language skills in early childhood
P07 Shaghayegh Omidvar: From early to late silent gaps: developmental differences in automatic auditory detection
P08 Tommaso Colafiglio: EEG evidence of neural modulation Induced by audio-augmented smart glasses during speech listening
P09 László Harmat: Adult second language acquisition through choir singing: effects on proficiency and phonological ERP effects
P10 Yan Yu: Neural network for Mandarin lexical tone processing in children with tonal and nontonal language backgrounds using a machine learning approach

MUSIC, AUDITORY LEARNING & SOCIO-EMOTIONAL PROCESSING
P11 Chang Qin: Hierarchical modulation in music predictive coding: a single-trial linear mixed-effects model study on ERP components
P12 Xiazhen Liu: Impact of musical activities on tonal language learning – evidence from a multi-feature MMN paradigm
P13 Sophie Hale: Mismatch negativity as a marker of auditory training: The impact of group singing
P14 Kornelia Renachowska: The role of harmonicity in processing melody information in natural musical sequences
P15 Aíssa Baldé: Musical Expertise and Emotion Recognition in Speech Prosody: A Shared Auditory Basis?

ATTENTION & COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
P16 Giovanni Belloni: Optimal sampling rate for auditory attention? The role of temporal variability
P17 Nicole Wetzel: The interaction between involuntary and executive attention throughout childhood
P18 Anne MATHIEU: The Impact of Background Speech Meaningfulness on Voluntary and Involuntary Attention in Children and Adults
P19 Vincenza Tarantino: Contextual probabilities dynamically shape adaptive cognitive control in children
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14:40–15:55TALKS — Development, auditory plasticity and music15:00–15:15 Minna Huotilainen: The developing musical brain: Past, present, and future of infant music neuroscience
15:15–15:30 Giulio Carraturo: Parenting stress predicts enhanced child mismatch response to tender prosody: a mismatch negativity study
15:30–15:45 Amineh Koravand: Electrophysiological and behavioural measures of gap detection in children with auditory processing disorder: a pilot study
15:45–16:00 Ozgen Demirkaplan: Interleaved vs blocked musical training: differential effects on a pitch oddball task
16:00–16:15 Alexandre Celma-Miralles: The binary subdivision bias in polyrhythms through the lens of mismatch negativities (MMN)
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15:55–16:10Coffee break
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16:10–17:10Symposium 3: Predictive processing of visual changes.
Organizer: Piia Astikainen (University of Jyväskylä). 4 speakers		István Czigler: Visual mismatch negativity and long-term memory
Insa Schlossmacher: Underlying mechanisms of visual mismatch responses in oddball and predictive cueing designs
Piia Astikainen: Prediction error responses to neutral faces and modulation of early face processing by affective states
Kairi Kreegipuu: Preattentive information processing of schematic and photographic emotional faces
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17:10–17:55TALKS — Visual mismatch and attentional modulation17:30–17:45 Chen Frenkel: Feature-based attention modulates prediction error but not visual processing during passive viewing
17:45–18:00 Kairi Kreegipuu: Hunger modulates visual mismatch-related processing of food stimuli across stages of information processing
18:00–18:15 Petia Kojouharova: Primacy bias in the visual modality: a visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) study
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18:15–20:00Welcome reception (Historic cloisters of University of Bari)
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20:00Bari City Tour & Local Street Food
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DAY 2THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER · Clinical biomarkersSpeakers & presentation titles
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9:00–10:00Keynote: Mari Tervaniemi (University of Helsinki)"MMN and prediction and beyond?"
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10:00–11:00Symposium 4: MMN as a biomarker for psychosis: new approaches and future directions.
Organizer: Christian Valt (International University of Sarajevo). 4 speakers		Fran López-Caballero - Enhancing sensitivity of mismatch negativity biomarkers in first-episode psychosis through dual-rule paradigms.
Martin Dietz - Dynamic causal modeling of auditory responses in adolescents at genetic risk for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Christian Valt - From chronic psychosis to schizotypy: commonality of auditory mismatch negativity deficit.
Mariko Tada - Linking MMN to global functioning: an integrated perspective on psychosis in the real world.
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11:00–12:00TALKS — Psychosis and clinical MMN11:00–11:15 Prune Mazer: Opposing patterns of mismatch negativity in autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders across auditory and visual oddball tasks
11:15–11:30 Ken Suzutani: Sound mechanisms of temporal integration vs. stream segregation, and their abnormalities in schizophrenia
11:30–11:45 Lois Weston-Camors: Attentional engagement reduces mismatch negativity (MMN) deficits in early-stage psychosis: a literature review of active visual distractor task paradigms
11:45-12:00 Domenico Pomarico: A Tensor Network Framework for Interpretable Graph Analysis of Brain Networks
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12:00–12:45Symposium 5: Multidimensional and neurophysiological approach to early cognitive disorders in neurological disease.
Organizer: Livio Clemente (University of Bari). 3 speakers		12:00-12:15 Damiano Paolicelli: Integrated clinical and neurophysiological approach to early cognitive changes in multiple sclerosis
12:15-12:30 Livio Clemente: Neurophysiological characterization of prefrontal executive functions using the Stroop task across neurological conditions
12:30-12:45 Sara Invitto: Olfactory event-related potentials as markers of early prefrontal disfunction in cognitive impairment
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12:45–13:45Symposium 6: Neural dynamics of predictive processing across time, action, and attention.
Organiser: Giulio Pergola (University of Bari). 4 speakers		12:45-13:00 Visalli Antonino: Neural signatures of temporal belief updating and surprise: fMRI and EEG evidence
13:00-13:15 Romei Vincenzo: Perceptual priors shape error processing in the human brain
13:15-13:30 Russo Gabriele: Predictive demands modulate oscillatory power and directed MEG connectivity during visual attentional control
13:30-13:45 Gordillo Dario: Multisensory oddball processing in schizophrenia
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13:45–15:15LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION 2POSTER SESSION 2 — CLINICAL BIOMARKERS

PSYCHOSIS, ADDICTION & PAIN
P20 Ana Belén Lao-Rodríguez: Auditory novelty detection impairment in rats treated with the Nmda receptor antagonist MK-801: a model of schizophrenia
P21 Pradeep Dheerendra: Attentional engagement reduces mismatch negativity (MMN) deficits in early-stage psychosis: a literature review of active visual distractor task paradigms
P22 Pradeep Dheerendra: Mismatch negativity is not predictive of central neuropathic pain intensity in spinal cord injury: a home-based pilot study
P23 Angelantonio Tavella: Deficits in MEG-measured alpha peak are associated with cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder.
P24 Pradeep Dheerendra: Intact mismatch-negativity in emerging psychosis: evidence from magnetoencephalography
P25 Benedetta Matarrelli: Effects of cocaine and heroin addiction on preattentive speech prediction
P26 Mattsen Yeark: Environmental stability and prior experience differentially shape auditory perceptual learning in schizophrenia

AUTISM, AGING & NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS
P27 Laura Quintela Vega: Behavioral and neural correlates of auditory deviance detection in TgF344-AD Rats
P28 Marie Gomot: Atypical neural adaptation to emotional voices in autism reveals impaired encoding of socio-emotional regularities
P29 Marie Gomot: Neurophysiological evidence for parallel aging in auditory change detection in autism
P30 Sara Cacciato Salcedo: Sex- and etiology-specific effects on predictive processing in the
inferior colliculus of two rat models of autism
P31 Nicolas Judith: Investigating Sleep-Dependent Motor Memory Consolidation Across Age Using Targeted Memory Reactivation
P32 Dagmar Müller: Local beats global: Investigating the encoding of proportional and pattern deviance in predictable versus unpredictable fast-paced auditory sequences
P33 Ana Belén Lao-Rodríguez: Temporal dynamics of contextual processing in the inferior colliculus of a rat model of autism: Sex- and age-dependent trajectories
P34 Shreyas Krishnakumar: Does digital music-rhythm training modulate attention networks in stroke? Neurophysiological evidence from a single-case pilot

CLINICAL/COGNITIVE BIOMARKERS & METHODS
P35 Domenico Pomarico: A tensor network framework for interpretable graph analysis of brain networks
P36 Maarika Traat: Time-on-task effects on auditory and visual mismatch negativity during sustained cognitive performance
P37 Denise Naa-Amerley Monkau: How synesthesia impacts working memory: a computational approach
P38 Kristiina Averin: (v)MMN database for test-retest reliability, and validity testing
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15:15–17:00TALKS — Timing, context and meaning in predictive processing15:15–15:30 Andreas Widmann: The contribution of the standard omission to the mismatch negativity in the auditory oddball paradigm
15:30–15:45 Sophie Herbst: Predicting when: predictive coding vs. attentional orienting
15:45–16:00 Urte Roeber: The world we listen in: transition probabilities and MMN
16:00–16:15 Maja Foldal: Implicit encoding of timing probability in unattended sound streams supports deviance detection
16:15–16:30 Saira Jameela Hübenette: Hearing in motion - joint processing of time and space of moving sounds
16:30–16:45 Marc-Antoine Fortin: Does semantic content modulate mismatch negativity? An EEG study of auditory and visual deviance detection across levels of semanticity
16:45–17:00 Fakche Camille: Mismatch Negativity in congenital amusia: a MEG study with pitch and loudness deviants
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17:00–18:00Keynote: Peter Uhlhaas"Mismatch Negativity in Schizophrenia: A Predictive (Coding) Signal?"
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18:00–18:30TALKS — Clinical and lifespan biomarkers18:00–18:15 Mathias Houe Andersen: Brain network dynamics of local and global predictive processing in aging
18:15-18:30 Neha Ramu: A review on mismatch negativity in chronic Pain
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20:00–23:00Social dinner (Villa De Grecis)
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DAY 3FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER · Basic mechanisms of predictive processingSpeakers & presentation titles
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9:00–10:00Symposium 7: Predicting memory and cognitive declines using auditory evoked responses.
Organizer: Claude Alain (Baycrest Academy for Research and Education). 4 speakers		17:00-17:15 Banerjee Arpan: ERP components to brain networks: reframing MMN and P300 as biomarkers of cognitive aging from a network perspective
17:15-17:30 Bugos Jennifer: Neural oscillatory activity in pattern separation of musicians compared to non-musicians
17:30-17:45 Lu Jing: Effects of age and musical training on resting‑state periodic oscillatory brain activity
17:45-18:00 Alain Claude: Predicting cognitive aging using auditory evoked responses
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10:00–11:30Symposium 8: Prediction errors across species and sensory systems: distributed and hierarchical mechanisms.
Organizer: Alejandro Blenkmann (University of Oslo). 6 speakers 		10:00-10:15 Andres Canales-Johnson: Synergistic predictive processing in the thalamocortical system across mammalian brains
10:15-10:30 Misako Komatsu: Hierarchical representation of auditory predictive signal in the cerebral cortex of non-human primates
10:30-10:45 Alejandro O. Blenkmann: A network perspective on auditory predictive processing
10:45- 11:00 Krzysztof Basiński: The role of harmonicity in human auditory predictive processing
11:00-11:15 Martin Vinck: Neural mechanisms of predictive processing in the primary visual cortex of rodents and primates
11:15-11:30 Alessandro Tavano: Saturation dynamics of prediction error
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11:15–11:30Coffee break
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11:30–12:30Symposium 9: Context Matters: Predictability and task relevance in deviance processing.
Organizer: Jana Harenbrock (University of Münster). 4 speakers		11:30-11:45 Coy, Nina: Sound expectations: probing prediction with the conditional oddball paradigm
11:45-12:00 Lecaignard, Françoise: Adaptiveness of perceptual learning: insights from dynamic modeling of EEG/MEG responses in neurotypical and autistic adults
12:00-12:15 Harenbrock, Jana: Mismatch responses: a spatiotemporal pattern of prediction and adaptation
12:15-12:30 Todd, Juanita: Context and time: revealing perceptual learning across multiple timescales
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12:30–13:30Panel: The future of MMN and prediction research.Round Table with Valeria Csepe, Peter Vuust, Elvira Brattico, Giulio Pergola, Marina De Tommaso, Paula Virtala
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13:30–15:00LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION 3POSTER SESSION 3 — BASIC MECHANISMS OF PREDICTIVE PROCESSING

AUDITORY PREDICTION, DEVIANCE & ACTION
P39 Petri Paavilainen: How do inter-stimulus interval duration and regularity affect the brain's ability to predict abstract stimulus features?
P40 Enrico Sozza: Action shapes the neural representation of sound: enhanced frequency-following responses to self-generated sounds
P41 Andreas Widmann: Measuring the genuine mismatch negativity in the auditory multi-feature paradigm
P42 Matthew Godfrey: Continuous response surfaces reveal contextual dynamics of auditory perceptual learning
P43 Insa Schlossmacher: Identifying neural correlates of auditory perceptual awareness and mismatch using a no-report inattentional deafness paradigm
P44 Vinícius Carvalho: Hierarchical auditory prediction at the single-neuron level in the human medial temporal lobe
P45 Maysan Bader: Mismatch Response (MMR) effect for global temporal deviants.

VISUAL, CROSS-MODAL PREDICTION & ATTENTION
P46 Zhaonan Ma: Cross-modal attention differentially modulates auditory and visual mismatch responses under increasing task load
P47 Larissa Stähler: Lateral occipital cortex indexes visual mismatch independent of awareness
P48 Lili Kővári: Can vMMN or electrophysiological old/new effects evidence the registration of non-attended visual events in episodic memory?
P49 Silvia Mastromarino: Attentional load modulates oscillatory dynamics of fronto-parietal networks in healthy participants. Preliminary MEG evidence from the variable attentional control task
P50 Veronica Debora Toro: Local sequential context shapes ERP responses during emotional face processing: an exploratory study within a predictive processing framework
P51 Anna Soob: Associations between emotional visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) elicited by photographic and schematic faces
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P53 Anton Lachmann: The brain can't help but predict: task-irrelevant environmental regularity shapes behaviour and ERPs along a predictability gradient
P54 Louis Roberts: Predictive dynamics of trans-saccadic information processing

COMPUTATIONAL & CELLULAR MECHANISMS
P55 Laura H. Bohórquez: Top-down control of auditory predictive coding by PV+ interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortex
P56 Zhuo D. Zhang: Long-term plasticity drives recurrent spiking neural networks toward connectivity states that facilitate deviance detection
P57 Christopher Ma: Deep learning classification of error potentials in complex multimedia
P58 Aléna Ternon: Characterisation of adaptation mechanisms in neuronal microcircuits: insights from in vitro modelling.
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15:00–16:15TALKS — Prediction, action and neural mechanisms15:00–15:15 Gianluigi Giannini: Differentiating prediction from prediction-error brain correlates via EEG: stimulus preceding negativity as a marker of somatosensory stimulus anticipation.
15:15–15:30 Iria SanMiguel: Predictive and non-predictive contributions to self-generation effects: contingency yields suppression, prior entry and reduced surprise, coincidence yields suppression only
15:30–15:45 Alejandro Nasimbera: Rule-level violation responses to auditory omissions after prefrontal cortex lesions
15:45–16:00 Sabine Leske: Movement-based predictive processing in human sensory, premotor and inferior frontal regions
16:00–16:15 Takako Fujioka: Feedback related negativity (FRN) elicited by altered auditory feedback reflects prediction errors and musical agency during musical duet improvisation
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16:15–16:30Coffee break
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16:30–17:30Symposium 10: Neural circuits of the MMN: mechanistic approaches in vivo, in silico and in vitro.
Organizer: Françoise Lecaignard (Lyon Neuroscience Research Center). 4 speakers		16:30-16:45 Lecaignard Françoise: MMN, beyond the surface
16:45-17:00 Lao Rodríguez Ana B.: The neuronal basis for MMN at subcortical regions
17:00-17:15 Ternon Aléna: In vitro cultures of neurons promise direct access to neural circuits
17:15-17:30 Chao Zenas C.: A minimal mechanism for deviance detection: insights from computational models and neuronal cultures
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17:30–17:45Final ceremony
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