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Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex
- P. Belin, R. Zatorre, Philippe Lafaille, P. Ahad, B. Pike
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature
- 20 January 2000
The human voice contains in its acoustic structure a wealth of information on the speaker's identity and emotional state which we perceive with remarkable ease and accuracy. Although the perception… Expand
Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion
- A. Blood, R. Zatorre
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 25 September 2001
We used positron emission tomography to study neural mechanisms underlying intensely pleasant emotional responses to music. Cerebral blood flow changes were measured in response to subject-selected… Expand
Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech
- R. Zatorre, P. Belin, V. Penhune
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 January 2002
We examine the evidence that speech and musical sounds exploit different acoustic cues: speech is highly dependent on rapidly changing broadband sounds, whereas tonal patterns tend to be slower,… Expand
Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music
- V. Salimpoor, M. Benovoy, K. Larcher, A. Dagher, R. Zatorre
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature Neuroscience
- 1 February 2011
Music, an abstract stimulus, can arouse feelings of euphoria and craving, similar to tangible rewards that involve the striatal dopaminergic system. Using the neurochemical specificity of… Expand
Plasticity in gray and white: neuroimaging changes in brain structure during learning
- R. Zatorre, R. Fields, H. Johansen-Berg
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature Neuroscience
- 1 April 2012
Human brain imaging has identified structural changes in gray and white matter that occur with learning. However, ascribing imaging measures to underlying cellular and molecular events is… Expand
Lateralization of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing.
- R. Zatorre, Alan C. Evans, E. Meyer, A. Gjedde
- Psychology, Medicine
- Science
- 8 May 1992
Cerebral activation was measured with positron emission tomography in ten human volunteers. The primary auditory cortex showed increased activity in response to noise bursts, whereas acoustically… Expand
Interhemispheric anatomical differences in human primary auditory cortex: probabilistic mapping and volume measurement from magnetic resonance scans.
- V. Penhune, R. Zatorre, J. D. Macdonald, Alan C. Evans
- Psychology, Medicine
- Cerebral cortex
- 1 September 1996
The gyral morphology of the region of the primary auditory cortex (PAC) in the human brain is highly variable, and possible asymmetries between the hemispheres have been noted since the beginning of… Expand
Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions
- A. Blood, R. Zatorre, P. Bermudez, Alan C. Evans
- Medicine, Psychology
- Nature Neuroscience
- 30 March 1999
Neural correlates of the often-powerful emotional responses to music are poorly understood. Here we used positron emission tomography to examine cerebral blood flow (CBF) changes related to affective… Expand
Changes in brain activity related to eating chocolate: from pleasure to aversion.
- D. Small, R. Zatorre, A. Dagher, Alan C. Evans, M. Jones-Gotman
- Psychology, Medicine
- Brain : a journal of neurology
- 1 September 2001
We performed successive H(2)(15)O-PET scans on volunteers as they ate chocolate to beyond satiety. Thus, the sensory stimulus and act (eating) were held constant while the reward value of the… Expand
Brain organization for music processing.
- I. Peretz, R. Zatorre
- Psychology, Medicine
- Annual review of psychology
- 2005
Research on how the brain processes music is emerging as a rich and stimulating area of investigation of perception, memory, emotion, and performance. Results emanating from both lesion studies and… Expand