Dès 4 mois, les bébés distinguent la voix humaine des autres sons
Olivier Collignon, Roberta Calce
How Do We Combine Faces and Voices?
Mauro Pesenti
Presse spécialisée
Human social interactions are shaped by our ability to recognise people. Faces and voices are known to be some of the key features that enable us to identify individual people, and they are rich in information such as gender, age, and body size, that lead to a unique identity for a person. A large body of neuropsychological and neuroimaging research has already determined the various brain regions responsible for face recognition and voice recognition separately, but exactly how our brain goes about combining the two different types of information (visual and auditory) is still unknown.
Now a new study, published in the March 2011 issue of Elsevier's Cortex, has revealed the brain networks involved in this "cross-modal" person recognition.