Evolution of emotional communication from sounds in nonhuman mammals to speech and music in man /

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 processe...

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Other Authors: Altenmüller, Eckart., Schmidt, Sabine., Zimmermann, Elke., Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Series in affective science.
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