Welcome to the Voice, Emotion, and Speech (VoicES) Neuroscience Lab!
Our Research
The human voice is likely the most important sound category in the human auditory landscape. For example, a preference for human voices relative to non-social auditory stimuli is already observed in neonates. In the context of a conversation, listeners need to rapidly integrate multiple auditory cues, which include not only linguistic but also paralinguistic or speaker-specific information, such as his/her emotional state. At the VoicES Laboratory we investigate how humans perceive, recognize, and make sense of voice, speech, and emotional information. For example:
Examples
How do we differentiate familiar and unfamiliar voices?
How do we decode emotions from other people’s voices?
How do we assign meaning to speech stimuli?
Where and when do these processes take place in our brains?
Latest News
VoicES Lab – Current semester meetings
Pointing with words – Language as a social motor activity?
Why do we get chills when listening to music?
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We have a new paper online in Cortex! “Real and imagined sensory feedback have comparable effects on action anticipation”
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bQhM2VHXzzH3
Life under lockdown can be extremely demanding and tough. We would like to invite you to participate in a study about the effects of social isolation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Have you read our latest paper on #memory? “Is Internal Source Memory Recognition Modulated by Emotional Encoding Contexts?” https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01294-4
The VoicES Lab is part of the CICPSI CO2 Research Group.
This website was created with financial support from FCT (UIDB/04527/2020 and UIDP/04527/2020).
