Faces and voices are of high importance in interpersonal communication, and there are
notable parallels between face and voice perception. However, these parallels do not sit …

Speech produced by different people varies acoustically because of individual differences in
vocal tract physiology. This acoustic variation in the “same” words of language presents a …

Natural movements of the face and body, as well as voice, provide converging cues to a
person's identity. To date, person recognition has been studied primarily with static images …

Processing a famous face involves a cascade of steps including detecting the presence of a
face, recognizing it as familiar, accessing semantic/biographical information about the …

Social behavior is often shaped by the rich storehouse of biographical information that we
hold for other people. In our daily life, we rapidly and flexibly retrieve a host of biographical …

Humans have a remarkable skill for voice-identity recognition: most of us can remember
many voices that surround us as 'unique'. In this review, we explore the computational and …

Face-selective regions in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) have been
defined for decades mainly with functional magnetic resonance imaging. This face-selective …

In our everyday life, we continuously get to know people, dominantly through their faces.
Several neuroscientific experiments showed that familiarization changes the behavioral …

Brain regions located between the right fusiform face area (FFA) in the middle fusiform gyrus
and the temporal pole may play a critical role in human face identity recognition but their …

Human listeners exhibit marked sensitivity to familiar music, perhaps most readily revealed
by popular “name that tune” games, in which listeners often succeed in recognizing a …