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Proximal vocal threat recruits the right voice-sensitive auditory cortex

Ceravolo, Leonardo; Frühholz, Sascha; Grandjean, Didier (2016). Proximal vocal threat recruits the right voice-sensitive auditory cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(5):793-802.

Abstract

The accurate estimation of the proximity of threat is important for biological survival and to assess relevant events of everyday life. We addressed the question of whether proximal as compared with distal vocal threat would lead to a perceptual advantage for the perceiver. Accordingly, we sought to highlight the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of proximal vs distal threatening vocal signals by the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Although we found that the inferior parietal and superior temporal cortex of human listeners generally decoded the spatial proximity of auditory vocalizations, activity in the right voice-sensitive auditory cortex was specifically enhanced for proximal aggressive relative to distal aggressive voices as compared with neutral voices. Our results shed new light on the processing of imminent danger signaled by proximal vocal threat and show the crucial involvement of the right mid voice-sensitive auditory cortex in such processing.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Life Sciences > Cognitive Neuroscience
Uncontrolled Keywords:emotion, fMRI, proximal, spatial hearing, voice
Language:English
Date:8 January 2016
Deposited On:09 May 2016 13:54
Last Modified:15 Jan 2025 02:38
Publisher:Oxford University Press
ISSN:1749-5016
OA Status:Hybrid
Free access at:PubMed ID. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw004
PubMed ID:26746180
Project Information:
  • Funder: SNSF
  • Grant ID: 105314_124572
  • Project Title: Emotional prosody: an integration of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience approaches
  • Funder: SNSF
  • Grant ID: 51NF40-104897
  • Project Title: NCCR Affective Sciences: Emotion in Individual Behavior and Social Processes
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