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MRI brain scan highlighting auditory cortex response to chimpanzee vocalizations, illustrating evolutionary shared voice processing with primates.
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Human brain’s voice area shows selective response to chimpanzee calls

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Researchers at the University of Geneva have found that specific regions of the human auditory cortex respond particularly strongly to chimpanzee vocalizations compared with those of other primates, including bonobos and macaques. The work, published as a reviewed preprint in eLife, suggests that human brain areas involved in voice processing are also tuned to certain nonhuman primate calls, reflecting shared evolutionary and acoustic roots.

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