When during development do our brains get tuned to the human voice?

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-372

  Grossmann, Tobias ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

FMRI; FNIRS; Temporal cortex; Voice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; HEARING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; VOICE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; VOICE;

EID: 84860375024     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2011.628758     Document Type: Article

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