Thinking the voice: neural correlates of voice perception.
The human voice is the carrier of speech, but also an "auditory face" that conveys important affective and identity information. Little is known about the neural bases of our abilities to perceive such paralinguistic information in voice. Results from recent neuroimaging studies suggest that the different types of vocal information could be processed in partially dissociated functional pathways, and support a neurocognitive model of voice perception largely similar to that proposed for face perception.
Laboratoire de neuro-cognition vocale, Groupe de recherche en neuropsychologie et cognition (GRENEC), Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, CP 6128 succ. Centre-ville, Montréal H3C 3J7, Québec, Canada. pascal.belin@umontreal.ca
Pascal
P
Belin
Shirley
S
Fecteau
Catherine
C
Bédard
D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D003210:Concept Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014831:Voice