Mental Imagery of Faces and Places Activates Corresponding Stiimulus-Specific Brain Regions
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Imaging Cognition II: An Empirical Review of 275 PET and fMRI Studies
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissociating Verbal and Nonverbal Conceptual Processing in the Human Brain
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Adaptive Spiking Neural Networks for Audiovisual Pattern Recognition
Neural Information Processing
N250 erp correlates of the acquisition of face representations across different images
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cross-modal emotional attention: Emotional voices modulate early stages of visual processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Category training induces cross-modal object representations in the adult human brain
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Face and voice processing contribute to person recognition, but it remains unclear how the segregated specialized cortical modules interact. Using functional neuroimaging, we observed cross-modal responses to voices of familiar persons in the fusiform face area, as localized separately using visual stimuli. Voices of familiar persons only activated the face area during a task that emphasized speaker recognition over recognition of verbal content. Analyses of functional connectivity between cortical territories show that the fusiform face region is coupled with the superior temporal sulcus voice region during familiar speaker recognition, but not with any of the other cortical regions normally active in person recognition or in other tasks involving voices. These findings are relevant for models of the cognitive processes and neural circuitry involved in speaker recognition. They reveal that in the context of speaker recognition, the assessment of person familiarity does not necessarily engage supramodal cortical substrates but can result from the direct sharing of information between auditory voice and visual face regions.