Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10467153 | Neuropsychologia | 2007 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Brain imaging studies of voice perception often contrast activation from vocal and verbal tasks to identify regions uniquely involved in processing voice. However, such a strategy precludes detection of the functional relationship between speech and voice perception. In a pair of experiments involving identifying voices from native and foreign language speech we show that, even after repeated exposure to the same foreign language speakers, accurate talker identification is in a large part dependent on linguistic proficiency. These results suggest that a strong integration between the brain regions implicated in voice perception and speech perception accounts for the accurate identification of talkers.
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Authors
Tyler K. Perrachione, Patrick C.M. Wong,