- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Audios
- Videos
- Tables
- Boxes
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- The Science of Voice Perception
- Ancient of Days The Vocal Pattern as Primordial Big Bang of Communication
- The ‘Vocal Brain’: Core and Extended Cerebral Networks for Voice Processing
- Acoustic Patterning of Emotion Vocalizations
- Acoustic Properties of Infant-Directed Speech
- The Singing Voice
- Suprasegmental Speech Prosody and the Human Brain
- Reconsidering the Nature of Voice
- Voice Perception in Newborns and Infants
- One Step BeyondMusical Expertise and Word Learning
- Social Perception in Infancy: An Integrative Perspective on the Development of Voice and Face Perception
- neural responses to infant vocalizations in adult listeners
- Comparative Perspectives on Communication in Human and Non-Human Primates: Grounding Meaning in Broadly Conserved Processes of Voice Production, Perception, Affect, and Cognition
- Linking Vocal Learning to Social Reward in the Brain: Proposed Neural Mechanisms of Socially Guided Song Learning
- Voice-Sensitive Regions, Neurons, and Multisensory Pathways in the Primate Brain
- Voice Perception Across Species
- Emotional and Social Communication in Non-Human Animals
- Dual Stream Models of Auditory Vocal Communication
- The Neural Network Underlying the Processing of Affective Vocalizations
- The Electrophysiology and Time Course of Processing Vocal Emotion Expressions
- Amygdala Processing of Vocal Emotions
- Laughing Out Loud! Investigations on Different Types of Laughter
- Recognizing Speakers Across Languages
- Perceiving Speaker Identity from the Voice
- Perceptual Correlates and Cerebral Representation of Voices—Identity, Gender, and Age
- The Perception of Personality Traits from Voices
- Vocal Attractiveness
- Voice ProcessingImplications for Earwitness Testimony
- Voices in the Context of Human Faces and Bodies
- Linguistic ‘First Impressions’Accents as a Cue to Person Perception
- Voice Morphing
- Machine-Based Decoding of Voices and Human Speech
- Machine-Based Decoding of Paralinguistic Vocal Features
- Neurocomputational Models of Voice and Speech Perception
- Voice and Speech Synthesis—Highlighting the Control of Prosody
- Voice Biometrics for FORENSIC Speaker Recognition Applications
- Impairments in Decoding Vocal Emotion in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
- Perception of Voices That Do Not ExistNeuronal Mechanisms in Clinical and Non-Clinical Hallucinations
- Deficits in Voice-Identity ProcessingAcquired and Developmental Phonagnosia
- Voice Processing in Dementia
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
From the first days of life, babies appear to be naturally attracted to human faces and voices. These early biases maximize their social interaction and experience of social stimuli, leading to an impressive neurocognitive development of social perception in their first year. Recent advances in neuroimaging methods have revealed patterns of voice sensitivity in the infant’s temporal cortex. These patterns resemble the ones observed in adults, and their voice sensitivity increases rapidly in the first few months of life. Voice sensitivity in the infant temporal cortex is observed cross-culturally but seems to be altered in infants at risk of developing autism spectrum disorder. Activation of the infant social brain is also modulated by the emotional content of human vocalizations in regions involved in emotion processing in adulthood, such as the temporal voice-sensitive area, amygdala, and orbitofrontal cortex. Very young infants also appear to be sensitive to the integration of facial and vocal cues of gender, age, identity, emotions, and speech articulation. These skills are present from the first months of life and are increasingly more sophisticated as infants get closer to their first birthday. This chapter discusses the most recent findings in the early development of voice processing in the infant brain, as well as the emergence of audiovisual integration in social perception.
Keywords: voice perception, face perception, infancy, emotion, audiovisual integration, speech perception, vocalization, neuroimaging, fNIRS, fMRI
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
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- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Audios
- Videos
- Tables
- Boxes
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- The Science of Voice Perception
- Ancient of Days The Vocal Pattern as Primordial Big Bang of Communication
- The ‘Vocal Brain’: Core and Extended Cerebral Networks for Voice Processing
- Acoustic Patterning of Emotion Vocalizations
- Acoustic Properties of Infant-Directed Speech
- The Singing Voice
- Suprasegmental Speech Prosody and the Human Brain
- Reconsidering the Nature of Voice
- Voice Perception in Newborns and Infants
- One Step BeyondMusical Expertise and Word Learning
- Social Perception in Infancy: An Integrative Perspective on the Development of Voice and Face Perception
- neural responses to infant vocalizations in adult listeners
- Comparative Perspectives on Communication in Human and Non-Human Primates: Grounding Meaning in Broadly Conserved Processes of Voice Production, Perception, Affect, and Cognition
- Linking Vocal Learning to Social Reward in the Brain: Proposed Neural Mechanisms of Socially Guided Song Learning
- Voice-Sensitive Regions, Neurons, and Multisensory Pathways in the Primate Brain
- Voice Perception Across Species
- Emotional and Social Communication in Non-Human Animals
- Dual Stream Models of Auditory Vocal Communication
- The Neural Network Underlying the Processing of Affective Vocalizations
- The Electrophysiology and Time Course of Processing Vocal Emotion Expressions
- Amygdala Processing of Vocal Emotions
- Laughing Out Loud! Investigations on Different Types of Laughter
- Recognizing Speakers Across Languages
- Perceiving Speaker Identity from the Voice
- Perceptual Correlates and Cerebral Representation of Voices—Identity, Gender, and Age
- The Perception of Personality Traits from Voices
- Vocal Attractiveness
- Voice ProcessingImplications for Earwitness Testimony
- Voices in the Context of Human Faces and Bodies
- Linguistic ‘First Impressions’Accents as a Cue to Person Perception
- Voice Morphing
- Machine-Based Decoding of Voices and Human Speech
- Machine-Based Decoding of Paralinguistic Vocal Features
- Neurocomputational Models of Voice and Speech Perception
- Voice and Speech Synthesis—Highlighting the Control of Prosody
- Voice Biometrics for FORENSIC Speaker Recognition Applications
- Impairments in Decoding Vocal Emotion in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
- Perception of Voices That Do Not ExistNeuronal Mechanisms in Clinical and Non-Clinical Hallucinations
- Deficits in Voice-Identity ProcessingAcquired and Developmental Phonagnosia
- Voice Processing in Dementia
- Index