Human Novelty Response to Emotional Animal Vocalizations: Effects of Phylogeny and Familiarity.

ABSTRACT: Darwin (1872) postulated that emotional expressions contain universals that are retained across species. We recently showed that human rating responses were strongly affected by a listener's familiarity with vocalization types, whereas evidence for universal cross-taxa emotion recognition was limited. To disentangle the impact of evolutionarily retained mechanisms (phylogeny) and experience-driven cognitive processes (familiarity), we compared the temporal unfolding of event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to agonistic and affiliative vocalizations expressed by humans and three animal species. Using an auditory oddball novelty paradigm, ERPs were recorded in response to task-irrelevant novel sounds, comprising vocalizations varying in their degree of phylogenetic relationship and fam

SUBMITTER: Scheumann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5660701 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature