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Review
. 2004 Mar;8(3):129-35.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.01.008.

Thinking the voice: neural correlates of voice perception

Pascal Belin  1 , Shirley Fecteau, Catherine Bédard
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Thinking the voice: neural correlates of voice perception

Pascal Belin et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2004 Mar.

Abstract

The human voice is the carrier of speech, but also an "auditory face" that conveys important affective and identity information. Little is known about the neural bases of our abilities to perceive such paralinguistic information in voice. Results from recent neuroimaging studies suggest that the different types of vocal information could be processed in partially dissociated functional pathways, and support a neurocognitive model of voice perception largely similar to that proposed for face perception.

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