...This chapter provides a wide comparative perspective on the behavioural and neural capacities for vocalization processing in general, and for cross-species voice processing in particular. Vocal communication usually takes place among conspecifics, but in certain cases heterospecific vocalizations...

... of vocalizations, it is likely that these acoustic signals have had a significant influence on the evolution of the primate auditory system. An object-centered view of vocalization processing may yield new insights into the nature of the auditory system as well as reveal potential parallels with object processing...