Tone of voice and mind : the connections between intonation, emotion, cognition, and consciousness / Norman D. Cook.

Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music perc...

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Main Author: Cook, Norman D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2002.
Series:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 47.
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Summary:Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music perception (how human beings hear and feel harmony). The focus is on the psychological characteristics that distinguish us from other primate species. At a neuronal level, we are just another mammalian species, but the functional specialization of the human cerebral hemispheres has resulted in three out.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 291 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-285) and index.
ISBN:0585461929
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ISSN:1381-589X ;
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.