A Vocal Brain : Cerebral Processing of Voice Information
Orateur : Prof. Pascal Belin
Institut de Neurosciences de La Timone /
CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université
Abstract : The human voice carries speech but also a wealth of socially-relevant, speaker-related information. Listeners routinely perceive precious information on the speaker’s identity (gender, age), affective state (happy, scared), as well as more subtle cues on perceived personality traits (attractiveness, dominance, etc.), strongly influencing social interactions. Using voice psychoacoustics and neuroimaging techniques, we examine the cerebral processing of person-related information in perceptual and neural voice representations. Results indicate a cerebral architecture of voice cognition sharing many similarities with the cerebral organization of face processing, with the main types of information in voices (identity, affect, speech) processed in interacting, but partly dissociable functional pathways.
Date et Lieu : le mardi 17 avril 2018 à 11h00 dans l’amphithéâtre du LMA
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