Super-expressive voices: Music to my ears?

Elizabeth A. Simpson; William T. Oliver; Dorothy Fragaszy

doi:10.1017/S0140525X08005517

Super-expressive voices: Music to my ears?

Elizabeth A. Simpson, William T. Oliver, Dorothy Fragaszy

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We present evidence from neuroimaging and brain lesion studies that emotional contagion may not be a mechanism underlying musical emotions. Our brains distinguish voice from non-voice sounds early in processing, and dedicate more resources to such processing. We argue that super-expressive voice theory currently cannot account for evidence of the dissociation in processing musical emotion and voice prosody.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	596-597
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	31
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08005517
State	Published - Jan 1 2008
Externally published	Yes

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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