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My Voice or Yours? An Electrophysiological Study

Authors: Jérôme Graux, Marie Gomot, Sylvie Roux, Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault, Vincent Camus, Nicole Bruneau

Published in: Brain Topography | Issue 1/2013

Abstract

This study examined the neural processes underlying own voice discrimination using electrophysiological methods. Event-related potentials were recorded while healthy subjects (n = 17) heard passively three oddball sequences composed of recordings of the French vowel/a/pronounced either by the participant her/himself or by two unknown persons. The results indicated that, although the mismatch negativity (MMN) displayed similar peak latency and amplitude in both conditions, the subsequent P3a clearly distinguished the two conditions since its amplitude was significantly smaller for own voice discrimination than for that of unknown voices. Moreover, the own voice discriminative response was associated with an early pre-MMN response. This early response involved a left inferior frontal component, the activity of which lasted throughout the time course of the discriminative response, which included both MMN and P3a.

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Title: My Voice or Yours? An Electrophysiological Study
Authors: Jérôme Graux
Marie Gomot
Sylvie Roux
Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault
Vincent Camus
Nicole Bruneau
Publication date: 01-01-2013
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Brain Topography / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0896-0267
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6792
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-012-0233-2

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