Voice Preferring Cells: fMRI guided electrophysiology, Discovery
The Neuroscientist, Review
Handbook of Mammalian Vocalizations, Book Chapter
A Voice-Identity Sensitive Region, Discovery
BBSRC funded Post-Doctoral POSITION now available.
Applications under consideration.
Wellcome Trust position has been filled, but please enquire about upcoming openings.
The Mission
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.
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
Orthogonal Representation of Sound Dimensions in the Primate Midbrain - Original Article
Baumann, S., Griffiths, T.D., Sun, L., Petkov, C.I., Thiele, A. & Rees, A.
Nature Neuroscience (2011).
Voice Cells in the Primate Temporal Lobe - Original Article
Perrodin, C., Kayser, C., Logothetis, N.K. & Petkov, C.I.
Current Biology (2011).
Evolutionary conservation and neuronal mechanisms of auditory perceptual restoration - Review
Petkov, C.I., Sutter, M.L.
Hearing Research (2010).
Neurobiology and ethology: An enduring union? - Book Review / Perspective
Petkov, C.I., Taglialatela, J.P.
Current Biology (2010).
Communication and the primate brain: Insights from neuroimaging studies in humans, chimpanzees and macaques - Review
Wilson, B., Petkov, C.I.
Human Biology (2010).
Where are the Human Speech and Voice Regions and Do Other Animals Have Anything Like Them? - Review Article
Petkov, C.I., Logothetis, N.K. & Obleser, J.
The Neuroscientist (2009).
Cortical Processing of Vocal Sounds in Primates - Book Chapter
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
Wellcome Trust
BBSRC
Newcastle University
Past Funding
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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"
