Brain 'talks over' boring quotes: Top-down activation of voice-selective areas while listening to monotonous direct speech quotations

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1832-1842

  Yao, Bo ^a   Belin, Pascal ^a,b   Scheepers, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct speech; Emotional prosody; FMRI; Indirect speech; Language comprehension; Mental simulation; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT SPEECH; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INDIRECT SPEECH; INNER VOICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LISTENING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL VOICE AREA; VOICE; VOICE SELECTIVE AREA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857730339     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.111     Document Type: Article

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