Neural processing of vocal emotion and identity

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 121-126

  Spreckelmeyer, Katja N ^a   Kutas, Marta ^b   Urbach, Thomas ^b   Altenmüller, Eckart ^c   Münte, Thomas F ^d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Emotion; Event related potentials (ERP); Identity; Prosody; Timbre; Voice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58549117682     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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