The Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab is based in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo (UiO). The lab is led by Prof. Sascha Frühholz.

Main research areas

  • Voice communication and social voice signals
  • Evolution of music and musical emotions
  • Affective Neuroscience and Systems Neuroscience of the limbic system
  • Digitalization and AI in Neuroscience
  • Biometric and forensic dimensions of human data
  • Clinical neuroscience of neurological and psychiatric disorders


Recent news posts from the lab …

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The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles
October 28, 2024
Sound examples related to the paper S Frühholz et al (2024). Psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles....
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Live affective voices and the amygdalo-hippocampus circuit
September 01, 2024
Voice examples related to the paper F Steiner, S Frühholz (). Real-time affect decoding in the amygdalo-hippocampal circuit from dynamic...
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Music as an Evolved Tool for Socio-Affective Fiction
July 01, 2024
New paper out in Emotion Review. Find a link to the article inside this post.