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Exploring the cerebral substrate of voice perception in primate brains

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One can consider human language to be the Swiss army knife of the vast domain of animal communication. There is now growing evidence suggesting that this technology may have emerged from already operational material instead of being a sudden innovation. Sharing ideas and thoughts with conspecifics via language constitutes an amazing ability, but what value would it hold if our conspecifics were not first detected and recognized? Conspecific voice (CV) perception is fundamental to communication and widely shared across the animal kingdom. Two questions that arise then are: is this apparently shared ability reflected in common cerebral substrate? And, how has this substrate evolved? The paper addresses these questions by examining studies on the cerebral basis of CV perception in humans' closest relatives, non-human primates. Neuroimaging studies, in particular, suggest the existence of a ‘voice patch system’, a network of interconnected cortical areas that can provide a common template for the cerebral processing of CV in primates.
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hal-02437126 , version 1 (13-01-2020)

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Clémentine Bodin, Pascal Belin. Exploring the cerebral substrate of voice perception in primate brains. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019, What can animal communication teach us about human language?, 375 (1789), pp.0180386. ⟨10.1098/rstb.2018.0386⟩. ⟨hal-02437126⟩
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