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Sounds From Speech Say A Lot More About Emotion Than Words, says new study from McGill University
It takes just one-tenth of a second for our brains to begin to recognize emotions conveyed by vocalizations, according to researchers from McGill. More importantly, the researchers have also discovered that we pay more attention when an emotion (such as happiness, sadness or anger) is expressed through vocalizations than we do when the same emotion is expressed in speech.
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Original Press Release from McGill University
Link includes audio of some of the vocalizations from the study - give it a listen!
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