Human brain becomes tuned to voices and emotional tone of voice during infancy

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 07:49 in Psychology & Sociology

New research finds that the brains of infants as young as 7 months old demonstrate a sensitivity to the human voice and to emotions communicated through the voice that is remarkably similar to what is observed in the brains of adults. The study, published by Cell Press in the March 25 issue of the journal Neuron, probes the origins of voice processing in the human brain and may provide important insight into neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism...

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