
Music as an Evolved Tool for Socio-Affective Fiction
July 01, 2024
New paper out in Emotion Review.
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Cortical-striatal brain network distinguishes deepfake from real speaker identity
June 11, 2024
New paper out in Communications Biology.
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MSCA Doctoral network on Voice Communication Sciences
May 25, 2024
We recently have been granted a MSCA doctoral network (MSCA-DN) from the European Union. Find a link to the DN...

Emotional power of live music
May 20, 2024
Our research on the emotional power of live music covered on the PNAS podcast. By Paul Gabrielsen. Find a link...

Wie Live-Musik das Emotionszentrum im Gehirn beeinflusst
April 25, 2024
Our research on the emotional power of live music covered on the SRF podcast. By Elisabeth von Kalnein. Find a...

Connection between music and emotions
March 30, 2024
Our research on the emotional power of live music covered in El Pais (english). By Enrique Alpanes. Find a link...

Livemusik ist viel emotionaler als Musik aus der Konserve
March 03, 2024
Our research on the emotional power of live music covered by the German newspaper SPIEGEL. Find a link to the...

Melodische Hirnforschung - Live-Musik sorgt für grosse Gefühle
February 28, 2024
Our research on the emotional power of live music covered at Swiss SRF broadcasting. Find a link to the magazine...

Why does live music make us emotional?
February 27, 2024
Our research on the emotional power of live music covered BBC UK. Find a link to the newspaper article inside...

Live music stimulates the affective brain
February 26, 2024
New paper out in PNAS.
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DBS improves speech and voice quality in Parkinson's disease
January 26, 2024
New paper out in Brain Stimulation.
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fMRI neurofeedback training improves attention-related alertness
January 25, 2024
New paper out in Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.
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How horror movie soundtracks prey on our fears. By Ben Guarino
October 06, 2023
Our research covered by the Popular Science magazine. Find a link to the
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Immersive VR for investigating threat avoidance
October 04, 2023
New paper out in Behavior Research Methods. Find a link to the
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Alles muss raus - Der Schrei
August 31, 2023
SWR2 Radio Sunday Matinee. By Jörg Biesler. Find a link to the
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Musical emotions expressed in live performances dynamically influence limbic brain activity in realtime
August 18, 2023
Talk at the Entrainment Workshop 2023, RITMO Centre, University of Oslo, 17-18 August, 2023. Find a link to the Youtube...

About the potential effects of childhood maltreatment on social cognition
May 21, 2023
New paper out in Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.
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Distinct functional levels of human voice processing in the auditory cortex
February 15, 2023
New paper out in Cerebral Cortex. Find a link to the
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About the different ways how fear is portrayed in music
January 19, 2023
New paper out in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA). Find a ink to the article inside...

Crossmodal benefits to vocal emotion perception in cochlear implant users
December 15, 2022
New paper out in iScience. Find a link to the
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On the influence of psychopathy and autism on neural voice processing
November 29, 2022
New paper out in Translational Psychiatry. Find a link to the
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Behavioral correlates of temporal attention biases during emotional prosody perception
October 22, 2022
New paper out in Progress in Scientific Reports. Find a link to the
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On rage rooms and screamatoriums
October 03, 2022
Our research on human screams covered in The Telegraph. By Rosa Silverman. Find a link to the magazine article inside...

Does screaming help mental health?
September 23, 2022
Our research on human screams covered in The Guardian. By Nicola Davis. Find a link to the magazine article inside...

Live vocal emotions stimulate the affective brain in realtime
July 22, 2022
New paper out in Progress in Neurobiology. Find a link to the
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Parameter-Specific Morphing Reveals Contributions of Timbre to the Perception of Vocal Emotions in Cochlear Implant Users
July 22, 2022
New paper out in Progress in Ear & Hearing. Find a link to the
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A Randomized Controlled Trial Study of a Multimodal Intervention vs. Cognitive Training to Foster Cognitive and Affective Health in Older Adults
June 22, 2022
New paper out in Frontiers in Psychology. Find a link to the
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Deepfakes - High-tech Illusions to Trick the Human Brain. Science from Switzerland
October 11, 2021
Public outreach presentation at the Science Agora 2021 event in Tokyo / Japan. Find a link to the Youtube video...

The evolutionary benefit of less-credible affective musical signals for emotion induction during storytelling
September 22, 2021
New commentary out in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Find a link to the
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Eyewitness Memory for Person Identification
June 22, 2021
New paper out in Frontiers in Psychology. Find a link to the
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Skrik ut din glädje för snabbast respons. By Karin Karltun
April 22, 2021
Our research on human screams covered by SVT Nyheter.
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Nonverbal auditory communication – Evidence for integrated neural systems for voice signal production and perception
April 15, 2021
New paper out in Progress in Neurobiology.
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Neurocognitive processing efficiency for discriminating human nonalarm rather than alarm scream calls
April 13, 2021
New paper out in Plos Biology. Find a link to the
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Human screams can convey six different emotions
April 13, 2021
Our research on human screams covered in National Geographics. By Maya Wei-Haas. Find a link to the magazine article inside...

Neurocognitive dynamics of near-threshold voice signal detection and affective voice evaluation New paper out in Science Advances
December 11, 2020
New paper out in Science Advances. Find a link to the
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Face and Voice Perception - Understanding Commonalities and Differences
February 26, 2020
New paper out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Find a link to the
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Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception
July 08, 2019
Out now at the Oxford University Press (OUP). Find a link to the
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