Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·March 30, 2021·5 min readScreams of ‘Joy’ Sound Like ‘Fear’ When Heard Out of ContextWhen people hear screams of excited happiness, they tend to confuse the emotion with fear. Researchers say the bias toward categorizing excited and joyfully screams as fear has evolutionary roots.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·June 30, 2019·4 min readScreams contain a ‘calling card’ for the vocalizer’s identityListeners can correctly identify whether pairs of screams originate from the same person or two different people. Findings suggest human screams convey a level of individual identity and shed new light on their evolutionary origin.Read More