Table of Content
Part A: Introductory Section1: M. Mortillaru, M. Mehu and K.R. Scherer: The evolutionary origin of multimodal synchronisation and emotional expression2: W.T. Fitch and K. Zuberbühler: Primate precursors to human language: Beyond discontinuity3: J.P. Rauschecker: Brain networks for the encoding of emotions in communication sounds of human and nonhuman primatesPart B: Different mammalian taxa4: G. Ehret: Sound communication in house mice: Emotions in their voices and ears?5: S. Brudzynks: Vocalizations as indicators of emotional states in rats and cats6: S. Schmidt: Beyond echolocation: Emotional acoustic communication in bats7: J. Soltis: Emotional communication in African Elephants8: E. Zimmermann, L. Leliveld, and S. Schehka: Toward the evolutionary roots of affective prosody in human acoustic communication: A comparative approach to mammalian voices9: C.T. Snowdon and D. Teie: Emotional communication in monkeys: Music to their ears?Part C: Non-speech Human vocalizations10: P. Zeskind: Infant crying and the synchrony of arousal11: M. J. Owren, M. Philipp, E. Vanman, N. Trivedi, A. Schulman, and J.A. Bachorowski: Understanding spontaneous human laughter: The role of voicing in inducing positive emotion12: D. Szameitat, D. Wildgruber, and K. Alter: Vocal expression of emotions in laughterPart D: Human Prosody13: D. Grandjean and S. Frühholz: An integrative model of brain processes for the decoding of emotional prosody14: S.A. Kotz, A.S. Hasting, and S. Paulmann: On the orbito-striatal interface in (acoustic) emotional processing15: C. Schroeder and R. Dengler: The role of dopamine in perception and expression of emotional communication in Parkinson's disease16: P.N. Juslin: Vocal affect expression: Problems and promisesPart E: Music17: I. Peretz, W. Aube, and J. Armony: Towards a neurobiology of musical emotions18: T. Fritz and S. Koelsch: Acoustically mediated emotional contagion as an across-species homology underlying music processing19: E. Altenmüller R. Kopiez, and O. Grewe: A contribution to the evolutionary basis of music: Lessons from the chill-responsePart F: Summary: Where to go?20: 1. E. Altenmüller, S. Schmidt, and E. Zimmermann: A cross-taxa concept of emotion in acoustic communication: An ethological perspective
