The neurobiology of primate vocal communication

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2014, Pages 128-135

  Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a   Eliades, Steven J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY MASKING; AWARENESS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND DETECTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; SELF MONITORING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; HUMANS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEURONS; PRIMATES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84900019715     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.06.015     Document Type: Review

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