Representations of personally familiar voices are better resolved in the brain.

Elise Kanber, Clare Lally, Raha Razin, Victor Rosi, Lúcia Garrido, Nadine Lavan, Carolyn McGettigan

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Speech-to-Speech Voice-Cloning Care (SVCC) for improving ICU-acquired anxiety for critically ill patients in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China: protocol of a randomised, controlled trial.BMJ open · 2026
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Short-Term Perceptual Training Modulates Neural Responses to Deepfake Speech But Does Not Improve Behavioral Discrimination.eNeuro · 2026
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Spontaneous recruitment of the person-knowledge network by familiar voices in the congenitally blind.Scientific reports · 2025
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Elise KanberDepartment of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, UK.

Clare LallyDepartment of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, UK.

Raha RazinDepartment of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, UK; Department Experimental Psychology, UCL, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK.

Victor RosiDepartment of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, UK.

Lúcia GarridoDepartment of Psychology, City St George's, University of London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK.

Nadine LavanSchool of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.

Carolyn McGettiganDepartment of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, UK. Electronic address: c.mcgettigan@ucl.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 220448

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human voice is highly flexible, allowing for diverse expression during communication,

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Auditory PerceptionBrainRecognition, PsychologySpeech PerceptionVoiceAdultFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleYoung AdultfamiliarityfMRIrepresentational similarity analysisvoice perception

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PMID40252646

DOI10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.081

PMCPMC7618125

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