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Deficits in Voice-Identity Processing: Acquired and Developmental Phonagnosia

Version 1 : Received: 15 June 2018 / Approved: 18 June 2018 / Online: 18 June 2018 (16:18:00 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 3 December 2018 / Approved: 4 December 2018 / Online: 4 December 2018 (16:31:48 CET)

How to cite: Roswandowitz, C.; Maguinness, C.; von Kriegstein, K. Deficits in Voice-Identity Processing: Acquired and Developmental Phonagnosia. Preprints 2018, 2018060280. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201806.0280.v2 Roswandowitz, C.; Maguinness, C.; von Kriegstein, K. Deficits in Voice-Identity Processing: Acquired and Developmental Phonagnosia. Preprints 2018, 2018060280. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201806.0280.v2

Abstract

The voice contains elementary social communication cues, conveying speech, as well as paralinguistic information pertaining to the emotional state and the identity of the speaker. In contrast to vocal-speech and vocal-emotion processing, voice-identity processing has been less explored. This seems surprising, given the day-to-day significance of person recognition by voice. A valuable approach to unravel how voice-identity processing is accomplished is to investigate people who have a selective deficit in recognising voices. Such a deficit has been termed phonagnosia. In the present chapter, we provide a systematic overview of studies on phonagnosia and how they relate to current neurocognitive models of person recognition. We review studies that have characterised people who suffer from phonagnosia following brain damage (i.e. acquired phonagnosia) and also studies, which have examined phonagnosia cases without apparent brain lesion (i.e. developmental phonagnosia). Based on the reviewed literature, we emphasise the need for a careful behavioural characterisation of phonagnosia cases by taking into consideration the multistage nature of voice-identity processing and the resulting behavioural phonagnosia subtypes.

Keywords

phonagnosia, acquired, developmental, apperceptive, associative, voice-identity processing, speaker recognition, core-voice system, extended system

Subject

Social Sciences, Cognitive Science

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