Evolution of emotional communication : from sounds in nonhuman mammals to speech and music in man / edited by Eckart Altenmüller, Sabine Schmidt, Elke Zimmermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altenmüller, Eckart.

Schmidt, Sabine, Dr. phil.

Zimmermann, Elke.

Series:

Series in affective science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal communication.

Animal communication.

Language and emotions.

Emotive (Linguistics).

Affective neuroscience.

Physical Description:

xiv, 376 pages : illustrations, charts, music ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Why do we think that we can understand animal voices - such as the aggressive barking of a pet dog, and the longing meows of the family cat? Why do we think of deep voices as dominant and high voices as submissive Are there universal principles governing our own communication system? Can we even see how close animals are related to us by constructing an evolutionary tree based on similarities and dissimilarities in acoustic signaling? Research on the role of emotions in acoustic communication and its evolution has often been neglected, despite its obvious role in our daily life. When we infect others with our laugh, soothe a crying baby with a lullaby, or get goose bumps listening to classical music, we are barely aware of the complex processes upon which this behavior is based. It is not facial expressions or body language that are affecting us, but sound. They are present in music and speech as "emotional prosody" and allow us to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This groundbreaking book presents a thorough exploration into how acoustically conveyed emotions are generated and processed in both animals and man. It is the first volume to bridge the gap between research in the acoustic communication of emotions in humans with those in animals, using a comparative approach. With the communication of emotions being an important research topic for a range of scientific fields, this book is valuable for those in the fields of animal behaviour, anthropology, evolutionary biology, human psychology, linguistics, musicology, and neurology. Book jacket.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199583560

0199583560

OCLC:

810119047