@inproceedings{95f7eddd6e414b31beb8f9fa85b3653d,
title = "Musical experience promotes subcortical efficiency in processing emotional vocal sounds",
abstract = "To understand how musical experience influences subcortical processing of emotionally salient sounds, we recorded brain stem potentials to affective vocal sounds. Our results suggest that auditory expertise engenders subcortical auditory processing efficiency that is intricately connected with acoustic features important for the communication of emotion. This establishes a subcortical role in the auditory processing of emotional cues, providing the first biological evidence for musicians' enhanced perception of vocally expressed emotion.",
keywords = "Auditory brain stem response, Brain, Emotion, Musicians, Plasticity",
author = "Strait, {Dana L.} and Nina Kraus and Erika Skoe and Richard Ashley",
year = "2009",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04864.x",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781573317399",
series = "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences",
publisher = "Blackwell Publishing Inc.",
pages = "209--213",
booktitle = "International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste",
}