An expanding literature has investigated emotion recognition across visual and auditory
modalities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Findings, however, have been highly …

Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to
dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect cognitive adaptations that evolved …

Most research on cross-cultural emotion recognition has focused on facial expressions. To
integrate the body of evidence on vocal expression, we present a meta-analysis of 37 cross …

The perception of multisensory emotion cues is affected by culture. For example, East
Asians rely more on vocal, as compared to facial, affective cues compared to Westerners …

The ability to recognize emotions undergoes major developmental changes from infancy to
adolescence, peaking in early adulthood, and declining with aging. A life span approach to …

Converging evidence demonstrates that emotion processing from facial expressions
continues to improve throughout childhood and part of adolescence. Here we investigated …

Human speech expresses emotional meaning not only through semantics, but also through
certain attributes of the voice, such as pitch or loudness. In investigations of vocal emotion …

The ability to distinguish spontaneous from volitional emotional expressions is an important
social skill. How do blind individuals perceive emotional authenticity? Unlike sighted …

The current study investigated the features of cross-cultural recognition of four basic
emotions “joy–neutral (calm state)–sad–anger” in the spontaneous and acting speech of …

The ability to recognize emotion is important to wellbeing and building relationships with
others, making this skill important in adolescence. Research investigating adolescents' …