FOR 499: Acoustic Communication of Emotions in Nonhuman Mammals and Man: Production, Perception and Neuronal Processing

人类音乐和语言的生物学根源是什么？在进化神经生物学中，这是一个关于情绪声学的核心问题，但尚未得到解答。传递情感是所有哺乳动物交流系统的基本特征。在声学领域，人类通过声音和音乐以及非人类哺乳动物的发声来传递情感。到目前为止，几乎不知道人类和非人类哺乳动物在多大程度上共享心理能力以及声学通信中的编码和解码策略，以及它们是否是所有哺乳动物，灵长类动物或人类所独有的。在我们的研究小组动物学家，灵长类动物学家，心理学家，语言学家，音乐学家和医生首次合作，采用比较的方法，深入了解不同层次的情感声学交流。从小鼠到人类的大脑分化。音乐，语音和非语言交流的选定类群被用来作为模型，照亮在声学，心理声学和情感的神经生物学的共享和独特的组件。

What are the biological roots of music and speech in man? This is a central but yet unanswered question in the evolutionary neurobiology of the acoustics of emotions. It is a fundamental trait of the communication system of all mammals to convey emotions. In the acoustic domain, emotions are transmitted by voice and music in man and by vocalisations in nonhuman mammals. To date, it is barely known to what extent humans and nonhuman mammals share mental capacities as well as coding and decoding strategies in acoustic communication and whether they are unique for all mammals, for primates or for man. In our research group zoologists, primatologists, psychologists, linguists, musicologists and physicians cooperate for the first time in a comparative approach to get insight into the acoustic communication of emotions on different levels of brain differentiation from mice to men. Music, speech and nonverbal communication of selected taxa are used as models to illuminate both shared and unique components in the acoustics, psychoacoustics and neurobiology of emotions.