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 …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Music evokes complex emotions beyond pleasant/unpleasant or happy/sad dichotomies
usually investigated in neuroscience. Here, we used functional neuroimaging with …

During the approximately 18–32 thousand years of domestication [1], dogs and humans
have shared a similar social environment [2]. Dog and human vocalizations are thus familiar …

Abstract fMRI studies increasingly examine functions and properties of non-primary areas of
human auditory cortex. However there is currently no standardized localization procedure to …

In human adults, voices are processed in specialized brain regions in superior temporal
cortices. We examined the development of this cortical organization during infancy by using …

Who we are as humans has a lot to do with what happens between our ears. What happens
between our ears has a lot to do with the social world we traverse, engage, and react to. The …

Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies demonstrate that labeling one's emotional
experiences and perceptions alters those states. Here, we used a comprehensive meta …

To better define the underlying brain network for the decoding of emotional prosody, we
recorded high-resolution brain scans during an implicit and explicit decoding task of angry …