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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Pradeep Dheerendra, Dr Simon Baumann, Dr Olivier Joly, Dr Fabien BalezeauORCiD, Professor Christopher Petkov, Professor Alexander Thiele, Professor Tim GriffithsORCiD
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. Whether human and nonhuman primates process the temporal dimension of sound similarly remains an open question. We examined the brain basis for the processing of acoustic time windows in rhesus macaques using stimuli simulating the spectrotemporal complexity of vocalizations. We conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging in awake macaques to identify the functional anatomy of response patterns to different time windows. We then contrasted it against the responses to identical stimuli used previously in humans. Despite a similar overall pattern, ranging from the processing of shorter time windows in core areas to longer time windows in lateral belt and parabelt areas, monkeys exhibited lower sensitivity to longer time windows than humans. This difference in neuronal sensitivity might be explained by a specialization of the human brain for processing longer time windows in speech.
Author(s): Dheerendra P, Baumann S, Joly O, Balezeau F, Petkov CI, Thiele A, Griffiths TD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Cerebral Cortex
Year: 2022
Volume: 32
Issue: 16
Pages: 3568-3580
Print publication date: 15/08/2022
Online publication date: 07/12/2021
Acceptance date: 05/11/2021
Date deposited: 05/09/2022
ISSN (print): 1047-3211
ISSN (electronic): 1460-2199
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab434
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab434
PubMed id: 34875029
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