Human cerebral response to animal affective vocalizations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1634, 2008, Pages 473-481

  Belin, Pascal ^a,b   Fecteau, Shirley ^c   Charest, Ian ^a   Nicastro, Nicholas ^d   Hauser, Marc D ^e,f   Armony, Jorge L ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Conspecific vocalizations; Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Limbic system; Voice

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BRAIN; FELID; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 38549148714     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1460     Document Type: Article

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