A recent study by Keysar, Hayakawa, and An (2012) suggests that “thinking in a foreign
language” may reduce decision biases because a foreign language provides a greater …

Do members of different cultures express (or “encode”) emotions in the same fashion? How
well can members of distinct cultures recognize (or “decode”) each other's emotion …

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective
languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

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 …

Music moves us. Its kinetic power is the foundation of human behaviors as diverse as dance,
romance, lullabies, and the military march. Despite its significance, the music-movement …

Examining the intersection of music, psychology, and neuroscience, Music, Thought, and
Feeling, Second Edition, surveys the rapidly growing field of music cognition and explores …

Using a three-dimensional model of affect, we compared the affective consequences of
manipulating intensity, rate, and pitch height in music and speech. Participants rated 64 …

To understand how language influences the vocal communication of emotion, we
investigated how discrete emotions are recognized and acoustically differentiated in four …

Researchers examining nonverbal communication of emotions are becoming increasingly
interested in differentiations between different positive emotional states like interest, relief …