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SUBMITTER: Tamura Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4350090 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tamura Yuri Y Kuriki Shinji S Nakano Tamami T
Scientific reports 20150305
A subtle difference between a real human and an artificial object that resembles a human evokes an impression of a large qualitative difference between them. This suggests the existence of a neural mechanism that processes the sense of humanness. To examine the presence of such a mechanism, we compared the behavioral and brain responses of participants who listened to human and artificial singing voices created from vocal fragments of a real human voice. The behavioral experiment showed that the ...[more]