Electrophysiological markers of voice familiarity

被引:67
作者
Beauchemin, Maude
De Beaumont, Louis
Vannasing, Phetsamone
Turcotte, Aline
Arcand, Claudine
Belin, Pascal
Lassonde, Maryse
机构
[1] Hop St Justine, Ctr Rech, Montreal, PQ H3T 1C5, Canada
[2] Univ Montreal, CERNEC, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[3] Univ Glasgow, Dept Psychol, Ctr Cognit Neuroimaging, Glasgow G12 8QB, Lanark, Scotland
关键词
event-related potentials; long-term memory; mismatch negativity; P3a; voice familiarity discrimination;
D O I
10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04856.x
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Our ability to discriminate and recognize human voices is amongst the most important functions of the human auditory system. The current study sought to determine whether electrophysiological markers could be used as objective measures of voice familiarity, by looking at the electrophysiological responses [mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a] when the infrequent stimulus presented is a familiar voice as opposed to an unfamiliar voice. Results indicate that the MMN elicited by a familiar voice is greater than that elicited by an unfamiliar voice at FCz. The familiar voice also produced a greater P3a wave than that triggered by the unfamiliar voice at Fz. As both the MMN and the P3a were elicited as participants were instructed not to pay attention to incoming stimulation, these findings suggest that voice recognition is a particularly potent preattentive process whose neural representations can be objectively described through electrophysiological assessments.
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页码:3081 / 3086
页数:6
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