Where sounds occur matters : context effects influence processing of salient vocalisations

• Main Authors: Azhari, Atiqah, Rigo, Paola, Bornstein, Marc H., Esposito, Gianluca
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Emotional Sounds; Context Effect
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144362
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The social context in which a salient human vocalisation is heard shapes the affective information it conveys. However, few studies have investigated how visual contextual cues lead to differential processing of such vocalisations. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is implicated in processing of contextua...