Emotional pre-eminence of human vocalizations

Brain Topography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 239-248

  Aeschlimann, Mélanie ^a   Knebel, Jean François ^a   Murray, Micah M ^a,b   Clarke, Stephanie ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auditory; Emotion; Object; Sound battery; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 43349098279     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-008-0051-8     Document Type: Article

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