%0 Journal Article %J Nature Neuroscience %D 2019 %T Divergence in the functional organization of human and macaque auditory cortex revealed by fMRI responses to harmonic tones %A Sam V Norman-Haignere %A Nancy Kanwisher %A Josh H. McDermott %A B. R. Conway %X

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.

%B Nature Neuroscience %8 06/10/2019 %G eng %U https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0410-7 %! Nat Neurosci %R 10.1038/s41593-019-0410-7