ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2017
Emotion Perception from Face, Voice, and Touch: Comparisons and Convergence.
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110 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A neurocognitive model of perceptual decision-making on emotional signals.Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
- Is the voice an auditory face? An ALE meta-analysis comparing vocal and facial emotion processing.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Pooled it
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- BreathSense: A Two-Stage Digital Framework for Student Stress Monitoring Using Personalized Breath-VOC Thresholding and In-the-Wild Validation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Changes in Intrinsic Activity of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex Causally Explain Differences in Emotion Perception in Autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Gender and task type effects on the neural network of emotional prosody processing.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Neurocognitive Processing of Facial Emotion Recognition in Individuals With Depression and Suicidal Ideation: An Eye-Tracking and EEG Study.Alpha psychiatry · 2026Article
- Sensory encoding of emotion conveyed by the face and visual context.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Multimodal semantic knowledge of emotion concepts in frontotemporal dementia.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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- Warmth Centrality in Social Cognitive Networks of Fairness Reputation Across Players in the Ultimatum and Dictator Games.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Behind a Voice There is a Speaker: Why Vocal Emotion Research Needs to Become 'Personal'.Affective science · 2025Review
- Touching Emotions: How Touch Shapes Facial Emotional Processing Among Adolescents and Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Regional and whole-brain neurofunctional alterations during pain empathic processing of physical but not affective pain in migraine patients.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Tactile and interpersonal sound symbolic associations in patients with multiple somatic symptoms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Dynamic Facial Emotional Expressions in Self-Presentation Predicted Self-Esteem.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Historically, research on emotion perception has focused on facial expressions, and findings from this modality have come to dominate our thinking about other modalities. Here we examine emotion perception through a wider lens by comparing facial with vocal and tactile processing. We review stimulus characteristics and ensuing behavioral and brain responses and show that audition and touch do not simply duplicate visual mechanisms. Each modality provides a distinct input channel and engages partly nonoverlapping neuroanatomical systems with different processing specializations (e.g., specific emotions versus affect). Moreover, processing of signals across the different modalities converges, first into multi- and later into amodal representations that enable holistic emotion judgments.
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