Recognition of emotions in macaque vocalizations by children and adults

Linnankoski, Ilkka; Laakso, M.; Aulanko, Reijo; Leinonen, Lea

doi:10.1016/0271-5309(94)90012-4

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“…In accordance with studies on emotional speech (6,14,40,41), children's ability to interpret monkey vocalisations improved with age, 9Á/10-yearold children did not differ from adults (37). Our results, supported by observations on Cebus capucinus (17), made us suggest that monkeys and man share some vocal cues in emotional-motivational communication.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Our primate inheritance may thus explain why naïve human listeners were able to recognise most emotional vocalisations of macaque monkeys (34,37). The conclusion supports the view that interspecies comparisons aid the recognition of communicative patterns with high developmental and social significance.…”

Section: Signals Of Contentmentsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…Everyday experience shows that such sounds are not favoured by infants either. Interestingly, we observed previously that 5 Á/7-year-old children tended to regard both 'angry' and 'frightened' monkey screams as 'angry' (37), whereas older children and adults could distinguish between them. Perhaps the differentiation between intense anger and fear is not possible during early childhood: young children may respond to any broad-band loud sounds with fear.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Previously we observed (34,37) that vocalisations of Macaca arctoides, which were categorised by their social context as angry, frightened, dominant, pleading, or content, were correctly interpreted by naïve human listeners (124 adults and 192 children aged 5 Á/ 10 years). In accordance with studies on emotional speech (6,14,40,41), children's ability to interpret monkey vocalisations improved with age, 9Á/10-yearold children did not differ from adults (37).…”

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confidence: 95%

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Shared means and meanings in vocal expression of man and macaque

Leinonen

Laakso²,

Carlson

et al. 2003

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

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Vocalisations of six Macaca arctoides that were categorised according to their social context and judgements of naive human listeners as expressions of plea/submission, anger, fear, dominance, contentment and emotional neutrality, were compared with vowel samples extracted from simulations of emotional-motivational connotations by the Finnish name Saara and English name Sarah. The words were spoken by seven Finnish and 13 English women. Humans and monkeys resembled each other in the following respects. 'Neutral', 'pleading' and 'commanding' had a similar F0 level. Loud vocalisations of intense 'anger' and 'fear' had both high F0, and the highest values were encountered for 'fear'. Compared with 'neutral', the audiosignal waveform of 'plea/submission' was more sinusoidal, seen in the spectrum as an attenuation of formants and an emphasis of the fundamental, whereas the signal waveform of 'commanding' was more complex corresponding to an increase in noise and a wider distribution of spectral energy. 'Frightened' samples included rather harmonic segments with emphasis of the fundamental, and 'angry' samples included more noise at the low end of the spectrum and often segments with low-frequency ( < 100 Hz) edged modulation. Sounds resembling soft and noisy 'content' grunts of the monkey do not appear in Finnish or English speech but 'content' utterances were, however, associated with low speech pressure, attenuation of harmonics and increase in noise.

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Section: Signals Of Contentmentsupporting

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Section: Glottal Gestures Of Anger and Fearmentioning

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Shared means and meanings in vocal expression of man and macaque

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“…Linnankoski and colleagues [33] showed that adults and children are able to recognize the context of macaque voices correctly. In contrast, Belin and colleagues [7] did not find correct emotional classifications of rhesus monkey voices.…”

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The Voice of Emotion across Species: How Do Human Listeners Recognize Animals' Affective States?

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Voice-induced cross-taxa emotional recognition is the ability to understand the emotional state of another species based on its voice. In the past, induced affective states, experience-dependent higher cognitive processes or cross-taxa universal acoustic coding and processing mechanisms have been discussed to underlie this ability in humans. The present study sets out to distinguish the influence of familiarity and phylogeny on voice-induced cross-taxa emotional perception in humans. For the first time, two perspectives are taken into account: the self- (i.e. emotional valence induced in the listener) versus the others-perspective (i.e. correct recognition of the emotional valence of the recording context). Twenty-eight male participants listened to 192 vocalizations of four different species (human infant, dog, chimpanzee and tree shrew). Stimuli were recorded either in an agonistic (negative emotional valence) or affiliative (positive emotional valence) context. Participants rated the emotional valence of the stimuli adopting self- and others-perspective by using a 5-point version of the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM). Familiarity was assessed based on subjective rating, objective labelling of the respective stimuli and interaction time with the respective species. Participants reliably recognized the emotional valence of human voices, whereas the results for animal voices were mixed. The correct classification of animal voices depended on the listener's familiarity with the species and the call type/recording context, whereas there was less influence of induced emotional states and phylogeny. Our results provide first evidence that explicit voice-induced cross-taxa emotional recognition in humans is shaped more by experience-dependent cognitive mechanisms than by induced affective states or cross-taxa universal acoustic coding and processing mechanisms.

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Why More Intelligent Individuals Like Classical Music

Kanazawa

Perina

2011

Behavioral Decision Making

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The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical problem in social and behavioral sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals are more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences than less intelligent individuals but that general intelligence has no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values and preferences. Recent work on the evolution of music suggests that music in its evolutionary origin was always vocal and that purely instrumental music is evolutionarily novel. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis would then imply that more intelligent individuals are more likely to prefer purely instrumental music than less intelligent individuals, but general intelligence has no effect on the preference for vocal music. The analyses of American (General Social Surveys) and British (British Cohort Study) data are consistent with this hypothesis. Additional analyses suggest that the effect of intelligence on musical preference is not a function of the cognitive complexity of music.

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Recognition of emotions in macaque vocalizations by children and adults

Cited by 41 publications

References 9 publications

Shared means and meanings in vocal expression of man and macaque

Shared means and meanings in vocal expression of man and macaque

The Voice of Emotion across Species: How Do Human Listeners Recognize Animals' Affective States?

Why More Intelligent Individuals Like Classical Music

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