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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2024

A population of neurons selective for human voice in the monkey brain

Margherita Giamundo
Regis Trapeau
  • Fonction : Auteur
Etienne Thoret
Luc Renaud
  • Fonction : Auteur
Simon Nougaret
Thomas Brochier

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Many animals can extract useful information from the vocalizations of other species. Neuroimaging studies have evidenced areas sensitive to conspecific vocalizations in the cerebral cortex of primates, but how these areas process heterospecific vocalizations remains unclear. Using fMRI-guided electrophysiology, we recorded the spiking activity of individual neurons in the anterior temporal voice patches of two macaques while they listened to complex sounds including vocalizations from several species. In addition to cells selective for conspecific macaque vocalizations, we identified an unsuspected subpopulation of neurons with strong selectivity for human voice, not merely explained by spectral or temporal structure of the sounds. The auditory representational geometry implemented by these neurons was strongly related to that measured in the human voice areas with neuroimaging and only weakly to low-level acoustical structure. These findings provide new insights into the neural mechanisms involved in auditory expertise and the evolution of communication systems in primates.
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hal-04687240 , version 1 (04-09-2024)

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Margherita Giamundo, Regis Trapeau, Etienne Thoret, Luc Renaud, Simon Nougaret, et al.. A population of neurons selective for human voice in the monkey brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024, 121 (25), pp.92 - 98. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2405588121⟩. ⟨hal-04687240⟩
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