Lab Highlighted in International Innovation article
Voice Preferring Cells: fMRI guided electrophysiology, Discovery
A Voice-Identity Sensitive Region, Discovery
Handbook of Mammalian Vocalizations, Review
Our Work is Highlighted in International Innovations Journal See Article
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Our group is pursuing evolutionary relationships of brain function. We are guided by the idea that
information on how the human brain has changed during its evolutionary history will be indispensible
for advancing treatments for cognitive and communication disorders. This includes addressing forms of
aphasia, agnosia and language disorders.
Birds, Primates and Spoken Language Origins - Review Article
On the Pursuit of the Brain Network for Proto-Syntactic Learning - Review Article
Orthogonal Representation of Sound Dimensions in the Primate Midbrain - Original Article
Voice Cells in the Primate Temporal Lobe - Original Article
Evolutionary conservation and neuronal mechanisms of auditory perceptual restoration - Review
Neurobiology and ethology: An enduring union? - Book Review / Perspective
Communication and the primate brain: Insights from neuroimaging studies in humans, chimpanzees and macaques - Review
Where are the Human Speech and Voice Regions and Do Other Animals Have Anything Like Them? - Review Article
Cortical Processing of Vocal Sounds in Primates - Book Chapter
Wellcome Trust
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
International Innovation (2012).
The Mission
Our research uses advanced imaging and neurophysiological methods to study perceptual awareness and cognitive
brain function, with an emphasis on communication: verbal or multisensory.
Research Directions
News and Highlights
Petkov, C.I. & Jarvis, E. D.
Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience (2012).
Petkov, C.I. & Wilson, B.
Phil. Trans. Royal Sociaty B (2012).
Baumann, S., Griffiths, T.D., Sun, L., Petkov, C.I., Thiele, A. & Rees, A.
Nature Neuroscience (2011).
Perrodin, C., Kayser, C., Logothetis, N.K. & Petkov, C.I.
Current Biology (2011).
Petkov, C.I., Sutter, M.L.
Hearing Research (2010).
Petkov, C.I., Taglialatela, J.P.
Current Biology (2010).
Wilson, B., Petkov, C.I.
Human Biology (2010).
Petkov, C.I., Logothetis, N.K. & Obleser, J.
The Neuroscientist (2009).
Petkov, C.I., Kayser, C. & Logothetis, N.K.
Ed. S. Brudzinsky
The Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization (2010, Elservier Press).
A Voice Region in the Primate Brain
Petkov, C.I., Kayser, C., Steudel, T., Whittingstall, K, Augath, M. & Logothetis, N.K.. Nature Neuroscience 11(3), 367-374 (2008).
Voted Scientific Highlight of the Year: FENS Highlight
Nature Neuroscience News and Views: Language Evolution
ScienceNOW: I Hear You, My Monkey Brother
Scientific American: Monkeys Hear Voices
Daily Telegraph: Origins of Language
For Other Work from our Group
see Publications
Current Funding
BBSRC
Past Funding
Max-Planck Society
National Institutes of Health (NRSA) on "Neural Correlates of Perceptual Continuity"
M.I.N.D. Institute Grant for "Attention and Perception in Dyslexia"
