Hemispheric Specialization for Processing the Communicative and Emotional Content of Vocal Communication in a Social Mammal, the Domestic Pig

In humans, speech perception is lateralized, with the left hemisphere of the brain dominant in processing the communicative content and the right hemisphere dominant in processing the emotional content. However, still little is known about such a division of tasks in other species. We therefore inve...

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Main Authors: Lisette M. C. Leliveld, Sandra Düpjan, Armin Tuchscherer, Birger Puppe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.596758/full