Gender differences in the temporal voice areas

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 JUL, 2014, Pages

  Ahrens, Merle Marie ^a,b   Shiekh Hasan, Bashar Awwad ^a   Giordano, Bruno L ^a   Belin, Pascal ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

FMRI; Gender difference; Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA); Temporal voice areas; Voice localizer; Voice perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PERCEPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOICE;

EID: 84905917829     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00228     Document Type: Article

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