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SUBMITTER: Sauter DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2823868 | biostudies-other | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100125 6
Emotional signals are crucial for sharing important information, with conspecifics, for example, to warn humans of danger. Humans use a range of different cues to communicate to others how they feel, including facial, vocal, and gestural signals. We examined the recognition of nonverbal emotional vocalizations, such as screams and laughs, across two dramatically different cultural groups. Western participants were compared to individuals from remote, culturally isolated Namibian villages. Vocali ...[more]