Evolution of emotional communication from sounds in nonhuman mammals to speech and music in man (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introductory Section - The evolutionary origin of multimodal synchronization and emotional expression - Marcello Mortillaro, Marc Mehu, and Klaus R. Scherer -- - Primate precursors to human language : beyond discontinuity - W. Tecumseh Fitch and Klaus Zuberbühler -- - Brain networks for the encoding of emotions in communication sounds of human and nonhuman primates - Josef P. Rauschecker -- - Different Mammalian Taxa - Sound communication in house mice : emotions in their voices and ears? - Günter Ehret -- - Vocalizations as indicators of emotional states in rats and cats - Stefan M. Brudzynski -- - Beyond echolocation : emotional acoustic communication in bats - Sabine Schmidt -- - Emotional communication in Aftican elephants (Loxodonta africana) - Joseph Soltis -- - Toward the evolutionary roots of affective prosody in human acoustic communication : a comparative approach to mammalian voices - Elke Zimmermann, Lisette Leliveld, and Simone Schehka --
- Emotional communication in monkeys : music to their ears? - Charles T. Snowdon and David Teie -- - Nonspeech Human Vocalizations - Infant crying and the synchrony of arousal - Philip Sanford Zeskind -- - Understanding spontaneous human laughter : the role of voicing in inducing positive emotion - Michael J. Owren, Michael Philipp, Eric Vanman, Niyati Trivedi, Allison Schulman, and Jo-Anne Bachorowski -- - Vocal expression of emotions in laughter - Diana P. Szameitat, Dirk Wildgruber, and Kai Alter -- - Human Prosody - An integrative model of brain processes for the decoding of emotional prosody - Didier Grandjean and Sascha Frühholz -- - On the orbito-striatal interface in (acoustic) emotional processing - Sonja A. Kotz, Anna S. Hasting, and Silke Paulmann -- - The role of dopamine in perception and expression of emotional communication in Parkinson's disease - Christine Schröder and Reinhard Dengler -- - Vocal affect expression : problems and promises
- Patrik N. Juslin -- - Music - Toward a neurobiology of musical emotions - Isabelle Peretz, William Aubé, and Jorge L. Armony -- - Acoustically mediated emotional contagion as an across-species homology underlying music processing - Thomas Fritz and Stefan Koelsch -- - A contribution to the evolutionary basis of music : lessons from the chill response - Eckart Altenmüller, Reinhard Kopiez, and Oliver Grewe -- - Summary : Where to Go? - A cross-taxa concept of emotion in acousitc communication : an ethological perspective - Eckart Altenmüller, Sabine Schmidt, and Elke Zimmermann
Why do we think that we can understand animal voices - such as the barking of a pet dog, the meows of the family cat? Why do we think of deep voices as dominant and high voices as submissive. This book presents a thorough exploration into how acoustically conveyed emotions are generated and processed in both animals and humans