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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Cortical-striatal brain network distinguishes deepfake from real speaker identity.

Claudia Roswandowitz, Thayabaran Kathiresan, Elisa Pellegrino, Volker Dellwo, Sascha Frühholz

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Claudia RoswandowitzCognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. claudia.roswandowitz@uzh.ch.ORCID 0000-0003-1688-6494
Thayabaran KathiresanCentre for Neuroscience of Speech, University Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Elisa PellegrinoPhonetics and Speech Sciences Group, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Volker DellwoPhonetics and Speech Sciences Group, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sascha FrühholzCognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) PP00P1_183711/1Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) SNSF PP00P1_157409
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Abstract

Deepfakes are viral ingredients of digital environments, and they can trick human cognition into misperceiving the fake as real. Here, we test the neurocognitive sensitivity of 25 participants to accept or reject person identities as recreated in audio deepfakes. We generate high-quality voice identity clones from natural speakers by using advanced deepfake technologies. During an identity matching task, participants show intermediate performance with deepfake voices, indicating levels of deception and resistance to deepfake identity spoofing. On the brain level, univariate and multivariate analyses consistently reveal a central cortico-striatal network that decoded the vocal acoustic pattern and deepfake-level (auditory cortex), as well as natural speaker identities (nucleus accumbens), which are valued for their social relevance. This network is embedded in a broader neural identity and object recognition network. Humans can thus be partly tricked by deepfakes, but the neurocognitive mechanisms identified during deepfake processing open windows for strengthening human resilience to fake information.

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Speech PerceptionAdultAuditory CortexCorpus StriatumFemaleHumansMaleNerve NetVoiceYoung Adult

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PMID38862808
PMCPMC11166919

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