The path of voices in our brain

Benjamin Morillon (1) , Luc H. Arnal (2) , Pascal Belin (1)

1 INS - Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes
2 IDA - Institut de l'Audition [Paris]

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.

Keywords: Acoustics; Social communication; Auditory cortex; Emotions; Acoustic signals; Animal communication; Animal sociality; Neurolinguistics

Domains: Neuroscience

Benjamin Morillon, Luc H. Arnal, Pascal Belin. The path of voices in our brain. PLoS Biology, 2022, 20 (7), pp.e3001742. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.3001742⟩. ⟨hal-03880603⟩