"Hearing faces and seeing voices": Amodal coding of person identity in the human brain.

ABSTRACT: Recognizing familiar individuals is achieved by the brain by combining cues from several sensory modalities, including the face of a person and her voice. Here we used functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) and a whole-brain, searchlight multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to search for areas in which local fMRI patterns could result in identity classification as a function of sensory modality. We found several areas supporting face or voice stimulus classification based on fMRI responses, consistent with previous reports; the classification maps overlapped across modalities in a single area of right posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS). Remarkably, we also found several cortical areas, mostly located along the middle temporal gyrus, in which local fMRI patterns resulted in identity "cr

SUBMITTER: Awwad Shiekh Hasan B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5121604 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature