Neurocognitive processing efficiency for discriminating human non-alarm rather than alarm scream calls.

Across many species, scream calls signal the affective significance of events to other agents. Scream calls were often thought to be of generic alarming and fearful nature, to signal potential threats, with instantaneous, involuntary, and accurate recognition by perceivers. However, scream calls are...

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Main Authors: Sascha Frühholz, Joris Dietziker, Matthias Staib, Wiebke Trost
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-04-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000751