Cerebral processing of voice gender studied using a continuous carryover FMRI design

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 958-966

  Charest, Ian ^a,b   Pernet, Cyril ^c   Latinus, Marianne ^b   Crabbe, Frances ^b   Belin, Pascal ^b,d  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

adaptation; auditory cortex; inferior prefrontal cortex; neuronal representation; superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOICE; VOICE ANALYSIS; VOICE GENDER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875149023     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs090     Document Type: Article

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