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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Table of Contents:
  • Tone of Voice and Mind; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Part I: Neuropsychology; Chapter 1: Cerebral specialization; Chapter 2: The central dogma of human neuropsychology; Chapter 3: Musical interlude; Chapter 4: The coding of human emotions; Chapter 5: The brain code; Part II: Consciousness and cognition; Chapter 6: Synapses and action potentials; Chapter 7: Synchronization; Chapter 8: A bilateral neural network simulation; Chapter 9: Conclusions; Appendix 1: Musical emotions; Appendix 2: Calculating harmoniousness; References; Index.