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SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 334-337Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm028
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emotion; erotic; fMRI; prosody; sex; voice
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Gender specific differences in cognitive functions have been widely discussed. Considering social cognition such as emotion perception conveyed by non-verbal cues, generally a female advantage is assumed. In the present study, however, we revealed a cross-gender interaction with increasing responses to the voice of opposite sex in male and female subjects. This effect was confined to erotic tone of speech in behavioural data and haemodynamic responses within voice sensitive brain areas ( right middle superior temporal gyrus). The observed response pattern, thus, indicates a particular sensitivity to emotional voices that have a high behavioural relevance for the listener.
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