Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

Emotion recognition represents the ability to encode an ensemble of sensory stimuli
providing information about the emotional state of another individual. This ability is not …

Emotional signals are crucial for sharing important information, with conspecifics, for
example, to warn humans of danger. Humans use a range of different cues to communicate …

Recognition of other's emotions influences the way social animals interact and adapt to the
environment. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) has been implicated in different aspects of …

The question of whether animals have emotions and respond to the emotional expressions
of others has become a focus of research in the last decade [1–9]. However, to date, no …

Primates communicate with each other using a wide range of signals: olfactory signals to
mark territories, screams to recruit help while fighting, gestures to request food and facial …

We report on the emergence of functional flexibility in vocalizations of human infants. This
vastly underappreciated capability becomes apparent when prelinguistic vocalizations …

In this article, the authors integrate the seemingly disparate literature on culture and emotion
by offering a biocultural model of emotion that offers three premises heretofore not …

Humans favor others seen as similar to themselves (ingroup) over people seen as different
(outgroup), even without explicitly stated bias. Ingroup-outgroup bias extends to involuntary …

Darwin observed that form, and in his view, meaning, of facial behaviour (observable
changes in the appearance of the face, often termed facial 'expression') is similar between a …