Vocal perception is particularly important for understanding a speaker's emotional state and
intentions because, unlike facial perception, it is relatively independent of speaker distance …

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been
overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty …

Effective interpersonal communication depends on the ability to perceive and interpret
nonverbal emotional expressions from multiple sensory modalities. Current theoretical …

Men and women seem to process emotions and react to them differently. Yet, few
neurophysiological studies have systematically investigated gender differences in emotional …

Spoken words are highly variable. A single word may never be uttered the same way twice.
As listeners, we regularly encounter speakers of different ages, genders, and accents …

Decoding verbal and nonverbal emotional expressions is an important part of speech
communication. Although various studies have tried to specify the brain regions that underlie …

Previous research suggests that emotional prosody processing is a highly rapid and
complex process. In particular, it has been shown that different basic emotions can be …

Although the voice-sensitive neural system emerges very early in development, it has yet to
be demonstrated whether the neonatal brain is sensitive to voice perception. We measured …

When an adult claims he cannot sleep without his teddy bear, people tend to react surprised.
Language interpretation is, thus, influenced by social context, such as who the speaker is …

It is unclear whether there is hemispheric specialization for prosodic perception and, if so,
what the nature of this hemispheric asymmetry is. Using the lesion-approach, many studies …