Abstract

We report a difference between humans and macaque monkeys in the functional organization of cortical regions implicated in pitch perception: humans but not macaques showed regions with a strong preference for harmonic sounds compared to noise, measured with both synthetic tones and macaque vocalizations. In contrast, frequency-selective tonotopic maps were similar between the two species. This species difference may be driven by the unique demands of speech and music perception in humans.

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