The Right Temporal Lobe and the Enhancement of Voice Recognition in Congenitally Blind Subjects

• Published in: Brain sciences Vol. 13; no. 3; p. 431
• Main Authors: Terruzzi, Stefano, Papagno, Costanza, Gainotti, Guido
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.03.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Biometry; blind people; Blindness; Brain damage; Brain injury; Face; False alarms; Familiarity; Hemispheric laterality; Pattern recognition; right temporal lesions; Semantics; Temporal lobe; Tumors; Voice recognition; blind people; right temporal lesions; voice recognition

Background: Experimental investigations and clinical observations have shown that not only faces but also voices are predominantly processed by the right hemisphere. Moreover, right brain-damaged patients show more difficulties with voice than with face recognition. Finally, healthy subjects undergo...