Multiple subregions in superior temporal cortex are differentially sensitive to vocal expressions: A quantitative meta-analysis

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-35

  Frühholz, Sascha ^a   Grandjean, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attentional focus; Paraverbal nonverbal expressions; Prosody; Valence; Vocal expressions; Voice

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SECONDARY AUDITORY CORTEX; SPEECH; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84875064506     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.11.002     Document Type: Review

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