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Listening to the Human Voice Alters Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms
While neuronal desynchronization in the mu ((≈)10Hz) and beta ((≈)20Hz) frequency bands has long been known to be an EEG index of sensorimotor activity, this method has rarely been employed to study auditory perception. In the present study, we measured mu and beta event-related desynchronisation (E...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24265836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080659 |
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author | Lévêque, Yohana Schön, Daniele |
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description | While neuronal desynchronization in the mu ((≈)10Hz) and beta ((≈)20Hz) frequency bands has long been known to be an EEG index of sensorimotor activity, this method has rarely been employed to study auditory perception. In the present study, we measured mu and beta event-related desynchronisation (ERD) while participants were asked to listen to vocal and triangle-wave melodies and to sing them back. Results showed that mu and beta ERD began earlier and were stronger when listening to vocal compared to non-vocal melodies. Interestingly, this humanness effect was stronger for less accurate singers. These results show that voice perception favors an early involvement of motor representations. |
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spelling | pubmed-38271772013-11-21 Listening to the Human Voice Alters Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms Lévêque, Yohana Schön, Daniele PLoS One Research Article While neuronal desynchronization in the mu ((≈)10Hz) and beta ((≈)20Hz) frequency bands has long been known to be an EEG index of sensorimotor activity, this method has rarely been employed to study auditory perception. In the present study, we measured mu and beta event-related desynchronisation (ERD) while participants were asked to listen to vocal and triangle-wave melodies and to sing them back. Results showed that mu and beta ERD began earlier and were stronger when listening to vocal compared to non-vocal melodies. Interestingly, this humanness effect was stronger for less accurate singers. These results show that voice perception favors an early involvement of motor representations. Public Library of Science 2013-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3827177/ /pubmed/24265836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080659 Text en © 2013 Lévêque, Schön http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lévêque, Yohana Schön, Daniele Listening to the Human Voice Alters Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms |
title | Listening to the Human Voice Alters Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms |
title_full | Listening to the Human Voice Alters Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms |
title_fullStr | Listening to the Human Voice Alters Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms |
title_full_unstemmed | Listening to the Human Voice Alters Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms |
title_short | Listening to the Human Voice Alters Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms |
title_sort | listening to the human voice alters sensorimotor brain rhythms |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24265836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080659 |
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