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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023

Multisensory interactions of face and vocal information during perception and memory in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.

Lizabeth M Romanski, Keshov K Sharma

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Distinct Cortical Populations Drive Multisensory Modulation of Segregated Auditory Sources.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  8. How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Lizabeth M RomanskiDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7847-321X
Keshov K SharmaDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
Society for Neuroscience · US

Funding

Auditory &Integrative Processes in Prefrontal CortexR01DC004845 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI LIZABETH M ROMANSKI · 2001 to 2026
$9.5M
An Amygdala to Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Projection Implicated in Emotional RecognitionF30MH122048 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI SHARMA, KESHOV KUMAR · 2020 to 2023
$206k
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC004845NIMH NIH HHS F30 MH122048
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ventral frontal lobe is a critical node in the circuit that underlies communication, a multisensory process where sensory features of faces and vocalizations come together. The neural basis of face and vocal integration is a topic of great importance since the integration of multiple sensory signals is essential for the decisions that govern our social interactions. Investigations have shown that the macaque ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), a proposed homologue of the human inferior frontal gyrus, is involved in the processing, integration and remembering of audiovisual signals. Single neurons in VLPFC encode and integrate species-specific faces and corresponding vocalizations. During working memory, VLPFC neurons maintain face and vocal information online and exhibit selective activity for face and vocal stimuli. Population analyses indicate that identity, a critical feature of social stimuli, is encoded by VLPFC neurons and dictates the structure of dynamic population activity in the VLPFC during the perception of vocalizations and their corresponding facial expressions. These studies suggest that VLPFC may play a primary role in integrating face and vocal stimuli with contextual information, in order to support decision making during social communication. This article is part of the theme issue 'Decision and control processes in multisensory perception'.

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Auditory PerceptionPrefrontal CortexAcoustic StimulationAnimalsHumansMacaca mulattaNeuronsfacemultisensory integrationprefrontal cortexsocial communicationvocalizationworking memory

Identifiers

PMID37545305
PMCPMC10404928
OpenAlexW4385620005

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