Emotional stimuli such as images, words, or video clips are often used in studies
researching emotion. New sets are continuously being published, creating an immense …

This report coordinates assessments of five types of behavioral responses in new mothers to
their own infants' cries with neurobiological responses in new mothers to their own infants' …

Music is a ubiquitous stimulus known to influence human affect, cognition, and behavior. In
the context of eating behavior, music has been associated with food choice, intake and …

Most research on nonverbal emotional vocalizations is based on actor portrayals, but how
similar are they to the vocalizations produced spontaneously in everyday life? Perceptual …

Nonverbal vocalizations, such as sighs, grunts, and yells, are informative expressions within
typical verbal speech. Likewise, individuals who produce 0–10 spoken words or word …

This study introduces a corpus of 260 naturalistic human nonlinguistic vocalizations
representing nine emotions: amusement, anger, disgust, effort, fear, joy, pain, pleasure, and …

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 transition to motherhood, and the resultant experience of caregiving, may change the
way women respond to affective, infant signals in their environments. Nonhuman animal …

Crying is the most salient vocal signal of distress. The cries of a newborn infant alert adult
listeners and often elicit caregiving behavior. For the parent, rapid responding to an infant in …

Despite the great potential of Virtual Reality (VR) to arouse emotions, there are no VR
affective databases available as it happens for pictures, videos, and sounds. In this paper …