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A voice region in the monkey brain
- Source :
- Nature Neuroscience, Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- For vocal animals, recognizing species-specific vocalizations is important for survival and social interactions. In humans, a voice region has been identified that is sensitive to human voices and vocalizations. As this region also strongly responds to speech, it is unclear whether it is tightly associated with linguistic processing and is thus unique to humans. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging of macaque monkeys (Old World primates, Macaca mulatta) we discovered a high-level auditory region that prefers species-specific vocalizations over other vocalizations and sounds. This region not only showed sensitivity to the amp;amp;lsquo;voiceamp;amp;lsquo; of the species, but also to the vocal identify of conspecific individuals. The monkey voice region is located on the superior-temporal plane and belongs to an anterior auditory what pathway. These results establish functional relationships with the human voice region and support the notion tha t, for different primate species, the anterior temporal regions of the brain are adapted for recognizing communication signals from conspecifics.
- Subjects :
- Male
Old World
Auditory Pathways
Acoustic Stimulation Animals Auditory Cortex/ anatomy & histology/ physiology Auditory Pathways/physiology Auditory Perception/ physiology Brain Mapping Functional Laterality/physiology Macaca mulatta/ anatomy & histology/ physiology Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Models
Deep linguistic processing
Brain mapping
Macaque
Functional Laterality
Species Specificity
biology.animal
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
medicine
Animals
Primate
Social Behavior
Human voice
Systems neuroscience
Auditory Cortex
Communication
Brain Mapping
biology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General Neuroscience
Animal Recognition (Psychology)/physiology Social Behavior Species Specificity Vocalization
Animal/ physiology
Recognition, Psychology
Macaca mulatta
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Functional imaging
Acoustic Stimulation
Temporal Regions
Models, Animal
Auditory Perception
Vocalization, Animal
business
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Psychology
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10976256
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....305ba9f11b3f3fcf2674317e0c5d23d9