Human Novelty Response to Emotional Animal Vocalizations: Effects of Phylogeny and Familiarity

Darwin (1872) postulated that emotional expressions contain universals that are retained across species. We recently showed that human rating responses were strongly affected by a listener's familiarity with vocalization types, whereas evidence for universal cross-taxa emotion recognition was l...

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Main Authors: Marina Scheumann, Anna S. Hasting, Elke Zimmermann, Sonja A. Kotz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00204/full