The neural network sustaining the crossmodal processing of human gender from faces and voices: An fMRI study

Joassin, Frédéric; Maurage, Pierre; Campanella, Salvatore

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.08.073

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“…That is, vlPFC neurons encode the “referential” information that is transmitted by vocalizations, independent of differences in their acoustic properties. Prefrontal activity also contributes to the formation of categories that reflect the emotional valence of a speaker's voice (Fecteau et al 2005) as well as the semantic information transmitted by multisensory stimuli (Joassin et al 2011; Werner and Noppeney 2011; Hu et al 2012). Together, these studies are consistent with the idea that ventral auditory pathway is an information-processing pathway that more complex stimuli and categories are processed in a hierarchically organized manner.…”

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Functional Organization of the Ventral Auditory Pathway

Cohen

Bennur

Christison-Lagay

et al. 2016

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

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The fundamental problem in audition is determining the mechanisms required by the brain to transform an unlabelled mixture of auditory stimuli into coherent perceptual representations. This process is called auditory-scene analysis. The perceptual representations that result from auditory-scene analysis are formed through a complex interaction of perceptual grouping, attention, categorization and decision-making. Despite a great deal of scientific energy devoted to understanding these aspects of hearing, we still do not understand (1) how sound perception arises from neural activity and (2) the causal relationship between neural activity and sound perception. Here, we review the role of the “ventral” auditory pathway in sound perception. We hypothesize that, in the early parts of the auditory cortex, neural activity reflects the auditory properties of a stimulus. However, in latter parts of the auditory cortex, neurons encode the sensory evidence that forms an auditory decision and are causally involved in the decision process. Finally, in the prefrontal cortex, which receives input from the auditory cortex, neural activity reflects the actual perceptual decision. Together, these studies indicate that the ventral pathway contains hierarchical circuits that are specialized for auditory perception and scene analysis.

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Section: Category Representation In the Ventral Auditory Pathwaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Functional Organization of the Ventral Auditory Pathway

Cohen

Bennur

Christison-Lagay

et al. 2016

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

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“…For example, the human inferior prefrontal cortex may encode categories for abstract information like emotional valence of a speaker's voice (Fecteau et al, 2005). Furthermore, human electroencephalography and neuroimaging studies have also revealed that the inferior prefrontal cortex plays a key role in the categorization of semantic information of multisensory stimuli (Werner and Noppeney, 2010; Joassin et al, 2011; Hu et al, 2012): Joassin et al showed that the inferior prefrontal cortex contains multisensory category representations of gender that is derived from a speaker's voice and from visual images of a person's face.…”

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Neural mechanisms of auditory categorization: from across brain areas to within local microcircuits

Tsunada

Cohen

2014

Front. Neurosci.

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Categorization enables listeners to efficiently encode and respond to auditory stimuli. Behavioral evidence for auditory categorization has been well documented across a broad range of human and non-human animal species. Moreover, neural correlates of auditory categorization have been documented in a variety of different brain regions in the ventral auditory pathway, which is thought to underlie auditory-object processing and auditory perception. Here, we review and discuss how neural representations of auditory categories are transformed across different scales of neural organization in the ventral auditory pathway: from across different brain areas to within local microcircuits. We propose different neural transformations across different scales of neural organization in auditory categorization. Along the ascending auditory system in the ventral pathway, there is a progression in the encoding of categories from simple acoustic categories to categories for abstract information. On the other hand, in local microcircuits, different classes of neurons differentially compute categorical information.

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“…Further there is evidence for an involvement of the inferior frontal gyrus and the cerebellum in voice gender perception [61]. Thereby right inferior frontal gyrus seems to reflect the processing of F0 modulation, which is the main acoustic correlate of prosody [62].…”

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More than Just Two Sexes: The Neural Correlates of Voice Gender Perception in Gender Dysphoria

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Gender dysphoria (also known as “transsexualism”) is characterized as a discrepancy between anatomical sex and gender identity. Research points towards neurobiological influences. Due to the sexually dimorphic characteristics of the human voice, voice gender perception provides a biologically relevant function, e.g. in the context of mating selection. There is evidence for a better recognition of voices of the opposite sex and a differentiation of the sexes in its underlying functional cerebral correlates, namely the prefrontal and middle temporal areas. This fMRI study investigated the neural correlates of voice gender perception in 32 male-to-female gender dysphoric individuals (MtFs) compared to 20 non-gender dysphoric men and 19 non-gender dysphoric women. Participants indicated the sex of 240 voice stimuli modified in semitone steps in the direction to the other gender. Compared to men and women, MtFs showed differences in a neural network including the medial prefrontal gyrus, the insula, and the precuneus when responding to male vs. female voices. With increased voice morphing men recruited more prefrontal areas compared to women and MtFs, while MtFs revealed a pattern more similar to women. On a behavioral and neuronal level, our results support the feeling of MtFs reporting they cannot identify with their assigned sex.

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The neural network sustaining the crossmodal processing of human gender from faces and voices: An fMRI study

Cited by 44 publications

References 61 publications

Functional Organization of the Ventral Auditory Pathway

Functional Organization of the Ventral Auditory Pathway

Neural mechanisms of auditory categorization: from across brain areas to within local microcircuits

More than Just Two Sexes: The Neural Correlates of Voice Gender Perception in Gender Dysphoria

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