Sound-Induced Activity in Voice-Sensitive Cortex Predicts Voice Memory Ability

The “temporal voice areas” (TVAs; Belin et al., 2000) of the human brain show greater neuronal activity in response to human voices than to other categories of non-vocal sounds. However, a direct link between TVA activity and voice perception behavior has not yet been established. Here we show that...

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Autores principales: Watson, Rebecca, Latinus, Marianne, Bestelmeyer, Patricia E. G., Crabbe, Frances, Belin, Pascal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22485101
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00089
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author Watson, Rebecca
Latinus, Marianne
Bestelmeyer, Patricia E. G.
Crabbe, Frances
Belin, Pascal
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description The “temporal voice areas” (TVAs; Belin et al., 2000) of the human brain show greater neuronal activity in response to human voices than to other categories of non-vocal sounds. However, a direct link between TVA activity and voice perception behavior has not yet been established. Here we show that a functional magnetic resonance imaging measure of activity in the TVAs predicts individual performance at a separately administered voice memory test. This relation holds when general sound memory ability is taken into account. These findings provide the first evidence that the TVAs are specifically involved in voice cognition.
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spelling pubmed-33172632012-04-06 Sound-Induced Activity in Voice-Sensitive Cortex Predicts Voice Memory Ability Watson, Rebecca Latinus, Marianne Bestelmeyer, Patricia E. G. Crabbe, Frances Belin, Pascal Front Psychol Psychology The “temporal voice areas” (TVAs; Belin et al., 2000) of the human brain show greater neuronal activity in response to human voices than to other categories of non-vocal sounds. However, a direct link between TVA activity and voice perception behavior has not yet been established. Here we show that a functional magnetic resonance imaging measure of activity in the TVAs predicts individual performance at a separately administered voice memory test. This relation holds when general sound memory ability is taken into account. These findings provide the first evidence that the TVAs are specifically involved in voice cognition. Frontiers Research Foundation 2012-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3317263/ /pubmed/22485101 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00089 Text en Copyright © 2012 Watson, Latinus, Bestelmeyer, Crabbe and Belin. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited.
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