AUTHOR=Watson Rebecca , Latinus Marianne , Bestelmeyer Patricia E. G. , Crabbe Frances , Belin Pascal
TITLE=Sound-Induced Activity in Voice-Sensitive Cortex Predicts Voice Memory Ability
JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology
VOLUME=3
YEAR=2012
URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00089
DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00089
ISSN=1664-1078
ABSTRACT=
The “temporal voice areas” (TVAs; Belin et al., 2000) of the human brain show greater neuronal activity in response to human voices than to other categories of non-vocal sounds. However, a direct link between TVA activity and voice perception behavior has not yet been established. Here we show that a functional magnetic resonance imaging measure of activity in the TVAs predicts individual performance at a separately administered voice memory test. This relation holds when general sound memory ability is taken into account. These findings provide the first evidence that the TVAs are specifically involved in voice cognition.