Introductory Section. The evolutionary origin of multimodal synchronization and emotional expression / Marcello Mortillaro, Marc Mehu, and Klaus R. Scherer
Primate precursors to human language : beyond discontinuity / W. Tecumseh Fitch and Klaus Zuberbühler
Brain networks for the encoding of emotions in communication sounds of human and nonhuman primates / Josef P. Rauschecker
Different Mammalian Taxa. Sound communication in house mice : emotions in their voices and ears? / Günter Ehret
Vocalizations as indicators of emotional states in rats and cats / Stefan M. Brudzynski
Beyond echolocation : emotional acoustic communication in bats / Sabine Schmidt
Emotional communication in Aftican elephants (Loxodonta africana) / Joseph Soltis
Toward the evolutionary roots of affective prosody in human acoustic communication : a comparative approach to mammalian voices / Elke Zimmermann, Lisette Leliveld, and Simone Schehka
Emotional communication in monkeys : music to their ears? / Charles T. Snowdon and David Teie
Nonspeech Human Vocalizations. Infant crying and the synchrony of arousal / Philip Sanford Zeskind
Understanding spontaneous human laughter : the role of voicing in inducing positive emotion / Michael J. Owren, Michael Philipp, Eric Vanman, Niyati Trivedi, Allison Schulman, and Jo-Anne Bachorowski
Vocal expression of emotions in laughter / Diana P. Szameitat, Dirk Wildgruber, and Kai Alter
Human Prosody. An integrative model of brain processes for the decoding of emotional prosody / Didier Grandjean and Sascha Frühholz
On the orbito-striatal interface in (acoustic) emotional processing / Sonja A. Kotz, Anna S. Hasting, and Silke Paulmann
The role of dopamine in perception and expression of emotional communication in Parkinson's disease / Christine Schröder and Reinhard Dengler
Vocal affect expression : problems and promises / Patrik N. Juslin
Music. Toward a neurobiology of musical emotions / Isabelle Peretz, William Aubé, and Jorge L. Armony
Acoustically mediated emotional contagion as an across-species homology underlying music processing / Thomas Fritz and Stefan Koelsch
A contribution to the evolutionary basis of music : lessons from the chill response / Eckart Altenmüller, Reinhard Kopiez, and Oliver Grewe
Summary : Where to Go? A cross-taxa concept of emotion in acousitc communication : an ethological perspective / Eckart Altenmüller, Sabine Schmidt, and Elke Zimmermann
