Preliminary Evidence of Preattentive Distinctions of Frequency-Modulated (FM) tones that Convey Affect

Recognizing emotion is an evolutionary imperative. An early stage of auditory scene analysis involves the perceptual grouping of acoustic features, which can be based on both temporal coincidence and spectral features such as perceived pitch. Perceived pitch, or fundamental frequency (F0), is an esp...

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Main Authors: David I Leitman, Pejman eSehatpour, Christina eGaridis, Manuel eGomez-Ramirez, Daniel C Javitt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00096/full