par Campanella, Salvatore ;Joassin, Frederic
Référence Integrating Face and Voice in Person Perception, Springer New York, page (149-161)
Publication Publié, 2013-01
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Résumé : We investigate the cerebral cross-modal interactions between human faces and voices involved during gender and identity categorization in two separate functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. In each of these experiments, participants were scanned in four runs that contained three conditions consisting in the presentation of faces, voices, or congruent face-voice pairs. The task consisted in categorizing each trial (visual, auditory, or associations) according to its gender or identity. The subtraction between the bimodal condition and the sum of the unimodal ones, as well as psychophysiological interaction analyses (PPI), were performed. Main results suggest that the cross-modal auditory-visual categorization of human gender and identity is sustained by a network of highly similar cerebral regions. This network included several regions such as the unimodal visual and auditory regions processing the perceived faces and voices and inter-connected via a subcortical relay located in the striatum, the left superior parietal gyrus, part of a larger parieto-motor network dispatching the attentional resources to the visual and auditory modalities, and the right inferior frontal gyrus sustaining the integration of the semantically congruent information into a coherent multimodal representation. Therefore, we suggest that cross-modal processing of human stimuli requires the activation of a network of cortical regions, including both unimodal visual and auditory regions and supramodal parietal and frontal regions involved in the integration of both faces and voices and in the cross-modal attentional processes.