Historically, research on emotion perception has focused on facial expressions, and findings
from this modality have come to dominate our thinking about other modalities. Here we …

Facial expressions are of eminent importance for social interaction as they convey
information about other individuals' emotions and social intentions. According to the …

The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

Primates are highly attuned not just to social characteristics of individual agents, but also to
social interactions between multiple agents. Here we report a neural correlate of the …

This meta-analysis of 28 data sets (N= 705 older adults, N= 962 younger adults) examined
age differences in emotion recognition across four modalities: faces, voices, bodies/contexts …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

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 …

Voices carry large amounts of socially relevant information on persons, much like 'auditory
faces'. Following Bruce and Young (1986)'s seminal model of face perception, we propose …

Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important
social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces âe" our feelings, our locus of …

Humanoid social robots have an increasingly prominent place in today's world. Their
acceptance in social and emotional human–robot interaction (HRI) scenarios depends on …