Processing of vocalizations in humans and monkeys: A comparative fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1376-1389

  Joly, Olivier ^a   Pallier, Christophe ^b   Ramus, Franck ^c   Pressnitzer, Daniel ^d   Vanduffel, Wim ^a,e,f   Orban, Guy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NeuroSpin   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Audition; Functional brain imaging; Human; Macaque; Monkey calls; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SYLVIAN FISSURE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863442268     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.070     Document Type: Article

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