Research report 2012 - Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
How our brain links faces and voices
Authors
Blank, Helen; von Kriegstein, Katharina
Departments
Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe Neuronale Mechanismen zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation
Summary
During face-to-face communication we integrate information from face and voice in order to recognize the identity of our conversational partner and understand the speech message. Novel research has shown that the brain integrates auditory and visual modalities much earlier than was previously thought.