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:
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
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University of Lisbon
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Portugal
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