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SUBMITTER: Schirmer A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5472162 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schirmer Annett A Gunter Thomas C TC
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20170601 6
This study explored the temporal course of vocal and emotional sound processing. Participants detected rare repetitions in a stimulus stream comprising neutral and surprised non-verbal exclamations and spectrally rotated control sounds. Spectral rotation preserved some acoustic and emotional properties of the vocal originals. Event-related potentials elicited to unrepeated sounds revealed effects of voiceness and emotion. Relative to non-vocal sounds, vocal sounds elicited a larger centro-pariet ...[more]