The 8th Mismatch Negativity conference “MMN from basic science to clinical applications”, celebrating 40th anniversary of the discovery of the MMN and 20th anniversary of the MMN conferences, will be held at Biomedicum, University of Helsinki, Finland, in June 12-15, 2018. Keynote lectures will be given by Emeritus Professor Pat Michie (School of Psychology, Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, University of Newcastle) and Professor Laurel Trainor (McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, McMaster University). MMN2018 is financially supported by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.