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 …

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 …

Our vocal tone—the prosody—contributes a lot to the meaning of speech beyond the actual
words. Indeed, the hesitant tone of a" yes" may be more telling than its affirmative lexical …

The processing of emotional signals usually causes an increase in pupil size, and this effect
has been largely attributed to autonomic arousal prompted by the stimuli. Additionally …

We meta-analyzed 115 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies reporting
auditory-cortex (AC) coordinates for activations related to active and passive processing of …

We conducted a series of activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses to determine
the commonalities and distinctions between separate levels of emotion perception, namely …

The voice is a rich source of information, which the human brain has evolved to decode and
interpret. Empirical observations have shown that the human auditory system is especially …

While humans have developed a sophisticated and unique system of verbal auditory
communication, they also share a more common and evolutionarily important nonverbal …

Emotional expressions of others embedded in speech prosodies are important for social
interactions. This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate how …

Until recently, brain networks underlying emotional voice prosody decoding and processing
were focused on modulations in primary and secondary auditory, ventral frontal and …