Species-specific calls evoke asymmetric activity in the monkey's temporal poles

@article{Poremba2004SpeciesspecificCE,
  title={Species-specific calls evoke asymmetric activity in the monkey's temporal poles},
  author={Amy Poremba and Megan Malloy and Richard C. Saunders and Richard E. Carson and Peter Herscovitch and Mortimer M. Mishkin},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2004},
  volume={427},
  pages={448-451}
}
It has often been proposed that the vocal calls of monkeys are precursors of human speech, in part because they provide critical information to other members of the species who rely on them for survival and social interactions. Both behavioural and lesion studies suggest that monkeys, like humans, use the auditory system of the left hemisphere preferentially to process vocalizations. To investigate the pattern of neural activity that might underlie this particular form of functional asymmetry… 
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