Face and voice perception: Understanding commonalities and differences

AW Young, S Frühholz, SR Schweinberger - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Faces and voices are of high importance in interpersonal communication, and there are
notable parallels between face and voice perception. However, these parallels do not sit …

The pleasures of sad music: a systematic review

ME Sachs, A Damasio, A Habibi - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, a response to distressing and adverse
situations. In an aesthetic context, however, sadness is often associated with some degree …

Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music

L Ferreri, E Mas-Herrero, RJ Zatorre… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how the brain translates a structured sequence of sounds, such as music,
into a pleasant and rewarding experience is a fascinating question which may be crucial to …

The sound of emotions—Towards a unifying neural network perspective of affective sound processing

S Frühholz, W Trost, SA Kotz - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Affective sounds are an integral part of the natural and social environment that shape and
influence behavior across a multitude of species. In human primates, these affective sounds …

Music and emotions: from enchantment to entrainment

P Vuilleumier, W Trost - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Producing and perceiving music engage a wide range of sensorimotor, cognitive, and
emotional processes. Emotions are a central feature of the enjoyment of music, with a large …

[HTML][HTML] It's sad but I like it: The neural dissociation between musical emotions and liking in experts and laypersons

E Brattico, B Bogert, V Alluri, M Tervaniemi… - Frontiers in Human …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Emotion-related areas of the brain, such as the medial frontal cortices, amygdala and
striatum are activated during listening to sad or happy music as well as during listening to …

Live music stimulates the affective brain and emotionally entrains listeners in real time

W Trost, C Trevor, N Fernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Music is powerful in conveying emotions and triggering affective brain mechanisms.
Affective brain responses in previous studies were however rather inconsistent, potentially …

Preferential decoding of emotion from human non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody

MD Pell, K Rothermich, P Liu, S Paulmann, S Sethi… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to compare the time course of emotion
processing from non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody, to test whether …

The language, tone and prosody of emotions: neural substrates and dynamics of spoken-word emotion perception

E Liebenthal, DA Silbersweig, E Stern - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Rapid assessment of emotions is important for detecting and prioritizing salient input.
Emotions are conveyed in spoken words via verbal and non-verbal channels that are …

Perceiving emotional expressions in others: activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses of explicit evaluation, passive perception and incidental perception of …

M Dricu, S Frühholz - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
We conducted a series of activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses to determine
the commonalities and distinctions between separate levels of emotion perception, namely …