Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6287263 | Hearing Research | 2015 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Here we review the animal and human literature on the main subcortical structures along the auditory pathway, and propose a model whereby the distinction between different types of vocal affect in auditory communication begins at very early stages of auditory processing, and relies on the analysis of individual acoustic features of the sound signal. We further suggest that this early feature-based decoding occurs at a subcortical level along the ascending auditory pathway, and provides a preliminary coarse (but fast) characterisation of the affective quality of the auditory signal before the more refined (but slower) cortical processing is completed.
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Authors
Alessia Pannese, Didier Grandjean, Sascha Frühholz,