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Human temporal-lobe response to vocal sounds
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Voice is not only the vehicle of speech, it is also an 'auditory face' that conveys a wealth of information on a person's identity and affective state. In contrast to speech perception, little is known about the neural bases of our ability to perceive these various types of paralinguistic vocal information. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we identified regions along the superior temporal sulcus (STS) that were not only sensitive, but also highly selective to vocal sounds. In the present study, we asked how neural activity in the voice areas was influenced by (i) the presence or not of linguistic information in the vocal input (speech vs. nonspeech) and (ii) frequency scrambling. Speech sounds were found to elicit greater responses than nonspeech vocalizations in most parts of auditory cortex, including primary auditory cortex (A1), on both sides of the brain. In contrast, response attenuation due to frequency scrambling was much more pronounced in anterior STS areas than at the level of A1. Importantly, only right anterior STS regions responded more strongly to nonspeech vocal sounds than to their scrambled version, suggesting that these regions could be specifically involved in paralinguistic aspects of voice perception.
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“Right lateralized auditory responses were observed for environmental sounds (Specht and Reul, 2003; Thierry et al., 2003; Thierry and Price, 2006), non-linguistic vocal sounds like laughter (Belin et al., 2002; Kriegstein and Giraud, 2004; Meyer et al., 2005), and the familiarity of vocalisation (Kriegstein and Giraud, 2004).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Belin, P., Zatorre, R. J., & Ahad, P.
- Affiliations
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Belin, Pascal
- Venue
- Cognitive Brain Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-02
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 17-26
- ISSN
- 0926-6410 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2154479364
- Cited by
- 452
- References
- 46
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- FWCI
- 8.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognitive Brain Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Keywords
- voice perception, superior temporal sulcus, primary auditory cortex, speech perception, hemispheric lateralization, temporal lobe, auditory cortex
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Female, Fourier Analysis, Humans, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Phonetics, Sound, Sound Spectrography, Speech Perception, Temporal Lobe, Voice
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