Altogether, we suggest that the cerebral processing of voice and voice gender involves multiple stages, where acoustically relevant information is processed in the anterior part of the STS followed by an involvement of the IFG and ACC where higher level cognitive processes related to the perception of voice characteristics influence the subject's decision making.
We assessed the performance and area footprint of our communication infrastructure through the implementation of a voice processing pipeline on top of a Network-on-Chip based architecture.
Although the initial processing of the vOICe's soundscapes occurred in the auditory cortex, subsequent tasks, such as identifying objects, occurred in the same regions of the brain as in sighted people.
Both studies suggested a right-hemispheric involvement in the cerebral processing of voice gender and report greater activity for female voices.
Results support the Social Motivation Theory of ASD by showing reward system deficits associated with the processing of a critical social stimulus, mother's voice, in children with ASD.Editorial note: This article has been through an editorial process in which the authors decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review.
Additional support for a right dominance in the processing of familiar voices come from lesion studies suggesting that an impairment recognizing familiar voices (phonanosia) is only evident in cases of damage to the right hemisphere, or more specifically right temporal lobe (Lancker et al., 1989; Van Lancker and Kreiman, 1987; Van Lancker et al., 1988).
Virtual assistants: Technology that uses natural language processing of text and/or voice to communicate with users and help them with tasks.
It was the aim of this study to delineate the areas along the right superior temporal sulcus (STS) for processing of faces, voices, and face voice integration using established functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) localizers and to assess their structural connectivity profile with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
It might be that the human lateralized auditory processing of familiar voices [9], [10] evolved late in primate evolution.
Interestingly, the processing of familiar voices or identifying the individual identity of voices likewise elicits right hemispheric dominant brain responses (Levy et al., 2001; Nakamura et al., 2001).
