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Blindness influences emotional authenticity perception in voices: Behavioral an...
Sarzedas, João; Lima, César F.; Roberto, Magda Sofia; Scott, Sophie K; Pinheiro, Ana P.; Conde, TatianaThe ability to distinguish spontaneous from volitional emotional expressions is an important social skill. How do blind individuals perceive emotional authenticity? Unlike sighted individuals, they cannot rely on facial and body language cues, relying instead on vocal cues alone. Here, we combined behavioral and ERP measures to investigate authenticity perception in laughter and crying in individuals with early...
The time course of emotional authenticity detection in nonverbal vocalizations
Magro, Tatiana; Correia, Ana Isabel; Roberto, Magda Sofia; Scott, Sophie K; Lima, César F.; Pinheiro, Ana P.Previous research has documented perceptual and brain differences between spontaneous and volitional emotional vocalizations. However, the time course of emotional authenticity processing remains unclear. We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to address this question, and we focused on the processing of laughter and crying. We additionally tested whether the neural encoding of authenticity is influenced by at...
Emotional authenticity modulates affective and social trait inferences from voices
Pinheiro, Ana P.; Anikin, Andrey; Conde, Tatiana magro; Sarzedas, João; Chen, Sinead; Scott, Sophie K; Lima, César F.The human voice is a primary tool for verbal and nonverbal communication. Studies on laughter emphasize a distinction between spontaneous laughter, which reflects a genuinely felt emotion, and volitional laughter, associated with more intentional communicative acts. Listeners can reliably differentiate the two. It remains unclear, however, if they can detect authenticity in other vocalizations, and whether auth...