The voice of emotion across species: How do human listeners recognize animals' affective states?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Scheumann, Marina ^a   Hasting, Anna S ^b,c   Kotz, Sonja A ^b,d   Zimmermann, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANIMAL VOICE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL VALENCE; FAMILIARITY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VOICE; INFANT; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; SCANDENTIA; SELF ASSESSMENT MANIKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE; VOICE INDUCED CROSS TAXA EMOTIONAL RECOGNITION; ANIMAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANIMALS; DOGS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUPAIIDAE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897980217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091192     Document Type: Article

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