Expression of emotion in music and vocal communication

• Main Author: Petri Laukka (auth)
• Other Authors: Anjali Bhatara (auth), Daniel J. Levitin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Brain processing; Cross-cultural; speech prosody; music perception; Vocalizations; developmental aspects; Emotion Expression; felt emotion; music performance; Acoustic features
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Two of the most important social skills in humans are the ability to determine the moods of those around us, and to use this to guide our behavior. To accomplish this, we make use of numerous cues. Among the most important are vocal cues from both speech and non-speech sounds. Music is also a reliab...