Humans and great apes are highly social species, and encounter conspecifics throughout
their daily lives. During social interactions, they exchange information about their emotional …

Subcortical brain structures of the limbic system, such as the amygdala, are thought to
decode the emotional value of sensory information. Recent neuroimaging studies, as well as …

During the approximately 18–32 thousand years of domestication [1], dogs and humans
have shared a similar social environment [2]. Dog and human vocalizations are thus familiar …

During speech processing, human listeners can separately analyze lexical and intonational
cues to arrive at a unified representation of communicative content. The evolution of this …

Laughter is a universally produced vocal signal that plays an important role in human social
interaction. Researchers have distinguished between spontaneous and volitional laughter …

Writing over a century ago, Darwin hypothesized that vocal expression of emotion dates
back to our earliest terrestrial ancestors. If this hypothesis is true, we should expect to find …

The objective of this chapter is to present current knowledge about musical emotions from a
neuropsychological perspective. Understanding the biological origin of musical emotions …

To better define the underlying brain network for the decoding of emotional prosody, we
recorded high-resolution brain scans during an implicit and explicit decoding task of angry …

Human neonates prefer listening to speech compared to many nonspeech sounds,
suggesting that humans are born with a bias for speech. However, neonates' preference …

We determined the location, functional response profile, and structural fiber connections of
auditory areas with voice-and emotion-sensitive activity using functional magnetic …