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. 2022 Jul 29;20(7):e3001742.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001742. eCollection 2022 Jul.

The path of voices in our brain

Benjamin Morillon  1 , Luc H Arnal  2 , Pascal Belin  3
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The path of voices in our brain

Benjamin Morillon et al. PLoS Biol. .

Abstract

Categorising voices is crucial for auditory-based social interactions. A recent study by Rupp and colleagues in PLOS Biology capitalises on human intracranial recordings to describe the spatiotemporal pattern of neural activity leading to voice-selective responses in associative auditory cortex.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. The functional processing hierarchy of auditory communicative signals.
TVAs are highlighted. They are the critical intermediate processing stage between general auditory analyses and hemispherically lateralized processes dedicated to socially relevant auditory signals. IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; STG, superior temporal gyrus; STS, superior temporal sulcus; TVA, temporal voice area.
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