Recognising Emotions from the Voice: A tDCS and fNIRS Double-Blind Study on the Role of the Cerebellum in Emotional Prosody
Sharon Mara Luciano, Laura Sagliano, Alessia Salzillo, Luigi Trojano, Francesco Panico · 2025
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Sharon Mara Luciano and colleagues tested the cerebellum's role in voice emotion in two thousand twenty-five. People read feelings from pitch, rhythm, and stress in speech. The cerebellum already links to reading facial emotion. Its role in vocal emotion was less clear. Volunteers named emotions in recorded voices. The set covered happiness, anger, sadness, surprise, and disgust.
Gentle brain stimulation targeted each side of the cerebellum. The study was double-blind, so expectations stayed controlled. Light sensors tracked blood flow in frontal brain areas. Right-side stimulation sped up emotion recognition. Neutral and disgust responses were the exceptions. The cerebellum clearly helps decode vocal feelings.
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| CREATOR | Sharon Mara Luciano, Laura Sagliano, Alessia Salzillo, Luigi Trojano, Francesco Panico |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |