The human voice areas: Spatial organization and inter-individual variability in temporal and extra-temporal cortices

NeuroImage

Volumn 119, Issue , 2015, Pages 164-174

  Pernet, Cyril R ^a   McAleer, Phil ^b   Latinus, Marianne ^c   Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J ^d   Charest, Ian ^e   Bestelmeyer, Patricia E G ^f   Watson, Rebecca H ^g   Fleming, David ^b   Crabbe, Frances ^b   Valdes Sosa, Mitchell ^h   Belin, Pascal ^b,c,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^f BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h Cuban Center for Neuroscience   (Cuba)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Auditory cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Inferior prefrontal cortex; Superior temporal gyrus; Superior temporal sulcus; Voice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL VOICE AREA; YOUNG ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; INDIVIDUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937210914     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.050     Document Type: Article

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