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.