Where are the human speech and voice regions, and do other animals have anything like them?

Neuroscientist

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 419-429

  Petkov, Christopher I ^a,b   Logothetis, Nikos K ^c   Obleser, Jonas ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Animal; Communication; Evolution; Language; Primate

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRIMATES; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 70349976875     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858408326430     Document Type: Review

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