Distinct fMRI responses to laughter, speech, and sounds along the human peri-sylvian cortex

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 291-306

  Meyer, Martin ^a,b   Zysset, Stefan ^b   Von Cramon, D Yves ^b   Alter, Kai ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); Laughter; Peri sylvian region; Speech; Vocal timbre

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNX; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; SOUND; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 21544466187     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.02.008     Document Type: Article

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