How human vocal pitch impacts cortical activity.

Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified neurons in the human brain that respond to pitch changes in spoken language, which are essential to clearly conveying both meaning and emotion.Neural populations in the human auditory cortex respond to changes of vocal pitch in speech. In this video cortical activity recorded from a small region of the brain in response to three sentences. As the pitch of the sentence goes high, neural activity shown in the color and size of the circle on the brain increases.

Видео How human vocal pitch impacts cortical activity. канала Brian Roemmele