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  1. Article ; Online: Music Training and Nonmusical Abilities.

    Schellenberg, E Glenn / Lima, César F

    Annual review of psychology

    2023  Volume 75, Page(s) 87–128

    Abstract: Music training is generally assumed to improve perceptual and cognitive abilities. Although correlational data highlight positive associations, experimental results are inconclusive, raising questions about causality. Does music training have far- ... ...

    Abstract Music training is generally assumed to improve perceptual and cognitive abilities. Although correlational data highlight positive associations, experimental results are inconclusive, raising questions about causality. Does music training have far-transfer effects, or do preexisting factors determine who takes music lessons? All behavior reflects genetic and environmental influences, but differences in emphasis-nature versus nurture-have been a source of tension throughout the history of psychology. After reviewing the recent literature, we conclude that the evidence that music training causes nonmusical benefits is weak or nonexistent, and that researchers routinely overemphasize contributions from experience while neglecting those from nature. The literature is also largely exploratory rather than theory driven. It fails to explain mechanistically how music-training effects could occur and ignores evidence that far transfer is rare. Instead of focusing on elusive perceptual or cognitive benefits, we argue that it is more fruitful to examine the social-emotional effects of engaging with music, particularly in groups, and that music-based interventions may be effective mainly for clinical or atypical populations.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Music ; Cognition ; Emotions
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-22
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 207937-9
    ISSN 1545-2085 ; 0066-4308 ; 0547-1567
    ISSN (online) 1545-2085
    ISSN 0066-4308 ; 0547-1567
    DOI 10.1146/annurev-psych-032323-051354
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  2. Article ; Online: Is musical expertise associated with self-reported foreign-language ability?

    Schellenberg, E Glenn / Correia, Ana Isabel / Lima, César F

    Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance

    2023  Volume 49, Issue 7, Page(s) 1083–1089

    Abstract: Many claims have been made about links between musical expertise and language ability. Rhythm ability, in particular, has been shown to predict phonological, grammatical, and second-language (L2) abilities, whereas music training often predicts reading ... ...

    Abstract Many claims have been made about links between musical expertise and language ability. Rhythm ability, in particular, has been shown to predict phonological, grammatical, and second-language (L2) abilities, whereas music training often predicts reading and speech-perception skills. Here, we asked whether musical expertise-musical ability and/or music training-relates to L2 (English) abilities of Portuguese native speakers. Participants (
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Music/psychology ; Self Report ; Bayes Theorem ; Language ; Cognition
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 189734-2
    ISSN 1939-1277 ; 0096-1523
    ISSN (online) 1939-1277
    ISSN 0096-1523
    DOI 10.1037/xhp0001116
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  3. Article ; Online: Enhanced salience of musical sounds in singers and instrumentalists.

    Martins, Inês / Lima, César F / Pinheiro, Ana P

    Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience

    2022  Volume 22, Issue 5, Page(s) 1044–1062

    Abstract: Music training has been linked to facilitated processing of emotional sounds. However, most studies have focused on speech, and less is known about musicians' brain responses to other emotional sounds and in relation to instrument-specific experience. ... ...

    Abstract Music training has been linked to facilitated processing of emotional sounds. However, most studies have focused on speech, and less is known about musicians' brain responses to other emotional sounds and in relation to instrument-specific experience. The current study combined behavioral and EEG methods to address two novel questions related to the perception of auditory emotional cues: whether and how long-term music training relates to a distinct emotional processing of nonverbal vocalizations and music; and whether distinct training profiles (vocal vs. instrumental) modulate brain responses to emotional sounds from early to late processing stages. Fifty-eight participants completed an EEG implicit emotional processing task, in which musical and vocal sounds differing in valence were presented as nontarget stimuli. After this task, participants explicitly evaluated the same sounds regarding the emotion being expressed, their valence, and arousal. Compared with nonmusicians, musicians displayed enhanced salience detection (P2), attention orienting (P3), and elaborative processing (Late Positive Potential) of musical (vs. vocal) sounds in event-related potential (ERP) data. The explicit evaluation of musical sounds also was distinct in musicians: accuracy in the emotional recognition of musical sounds was similar across valence types in musicians, who also judged musical sounds to be more pleasant and more arousing than nonmusicians. Specific profiles of music training (singers vs. instrumentalists) did not relate to differences in the processing of vocal vs. musical sounds. Together, these findings reveal that music has a privileged status in the auditory system of long-term musically trained listeners, irrespective of their instrument-specific experience.
    MeSH term(s) Acoustic Stimulation ; Auditory Perception/physiology ; Electroencephalography ; Humans ; Music ; Singing ; Voice
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2029088-3
    ISSN 1531-135X ; 1530-7026
    ISSN (online) 1531-135X
    ISSN 1530-7026
    DOI 10.3758/s13415-022-01007-x
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  4. Article ; Online: Inhibiting orofacial mimicry affects authenticity perception in vocal emotions.

    Vilaverde, Ricardo F / Horchak, Oleksandr V / Pinheiro, Ana P / Scott, Sophie K / Korb, Sebastian / Lima, César F

    Emotion (Washington, D.C.)

    2024  

    Abstract: Although emotional mimicry is ubiquitous in social interactions, its mechanisms and roles remain disputed. A prevalent view is that imitating others' expressions facilitates emotional understanding, but the evidence is mixed and almost entirely based on ... ...

    Abstract Although emotional mimicry is ubiquitous in social interactions, its mechanisms and roles remain disputed. A prevalent view is that imitating others' expressions facilitates emotional understanding, but the evidence is mixed and almost entirely based on facial emotions. In a preregistered study, we asked whether inhibiting orofacial mimicry affects authenticity perception in vocal emotions. Participants listened to authentic and posed laughs and cries, while holding a pen between the teeth and lips to inhibit orofacial responses (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2102391-8
    ISSN 1931-1516 ; 1528-3542
    ISSN (online) 1931-1516
    ISSN 1528-3542
    DOI 10.1037/emo0001361
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  5. Article ; Online: Corrigendum to "Does music training enhance auditory and linguistic processing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral and brain evidence" [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 140 (2022) 104777].

    Neves, Leonor / Correia, Ana Isabel / Castro, São Luís / Martins, Daniel / Lima, César F

    Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews

    2023  Volume 155, Page(s) 105442

    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Published Erratum
    ZDB-ID 282464-4
    ISSN 1873-7528 ; 0149-7634
    ISSN (online) 1873-7528
    ISSN 0149-7634
    DOI 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105442
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  6. Article ; Online: Blindness influences emotional authenticity perception in voices: Behavioral and ERP evidence.

    Sarzedas, João / Lima, César F / Roberto, Magda S / Scott, Sophie K / Pinheiro, Ana P / Conde, Tatiana

    Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

    2023  Volume 172, Page(s) 254–270

    Abstract: The ability to distinguish spontaneous from volitional emotional expressions is an important social skill. How do blind individuals perceive emotional authenticity? Unlike sighted individuals, they cannot rely on facial and body language cues, relying ... ...

    Abstract The ability to distinguish spontaneous from volitional emotional expressions is an important social skill. How do blind individuals perceive emotional authenticity? Unlike sighted individuals, they cannot rely on facial and body language cues, relying instead on vocal cues alone. Here, we combined behavioral and ERP measures to investigate authenticity perception in laughter and crying in individuals with early- or late-blindness onset. Early-blind, late-blind, and sighted control participants (n = 17 per group, N = 51) completed authenticity and emotion discrimination tasks while EEG data were recorded. The stimuli consisted of laughs and cries that were either spontaneous or volitional. The ERP analysis focused on the N1, P2, and late positive potential (LPP). Behaviorally, early-blind participants showed intact authenticity perception, but late-blind participants performed worse than controls. There were no group differences in the emotion discrimination task. In brain responses, all groups were sensitive to laughter authenticity at the P2 stage, and to crying authenticity at the early LPP stage. Nevertheless, only early-blind participants were sensitive to crying authenticity at the N1 and middle LPP stages, and to laughter authenticity at the early LPP stage. Furthermore, early-blind and sighted participants were more sensitive than late-blind ones to crying authenticity at the P2 and late LPP stages. Altogether, these findings suggest that early blindness relates to facilitated brain processing of authenticity in voices, both at early sensory and late cognitive-evaluative stages. Late-onset blindness, in contrast, relates to decreased sensitivity to authenticity at behavioral and brain levels.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Emotions/physiology ; Voice ; Blindness ; Laughter/physiology ; Social Perception ; Electroencephalography ; Evoked Potentials/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-28
    Publishing country Italy
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 280622-8
    ISSN 1973-8102 ; 0010-9452
    ISSN (online) 1973-8102
    ISSN 0010-9452
    DOI 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.11.005
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  7. Article ; Online: Author Correction: Can musical ability be tested online?

    Correia, Ana Isabel / Vincenzi, Margherita / Vanzella, Patrícia / Pinheiro, Ana P / Lima, César F / Schellenberg, E Glenn

    Behavior research methods

    2023  Volume 56, Issue 1, Page(s) 510

    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Published Erratum
    ZDB-ID 231560-9
    ISSN 1554-3528 ; 0743-3808 ; 1554-351X
    ISSN (online) 1554-3528
    ISSN 0743-3808 ; 1554-351X
    DOI 10.3758/s13428-023-02280-5
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  8. Article ; Online: Development of a novel tool to investigate human laughter behaviour and experience.

    Cai, Ceci Q / Mueller, Marie A E / Lima, César F / Jin, Gulun / Turek, Arabella / Sivasathiaseelan, Harri / Guldner, Stella / Scott, Sophie K

    Neuroscience letters

    2024  Volume 825, Page(s) 137690

    Abstract: We present a questionnaire exploring everyday laughter experience. We developed a 30-item questionnaire in English and collected data on an English-speaking sample (N = 823). Based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA), we identified four dimensions ... ...

    Abstract We present a questionnaire exploring everyday laughter experience. We developed a 30-item questionnaire in English and collected data on an English-speaking sample (N = 823). Based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA), we identified four dimensions which accounted for variations in people's experiences of laughter: laughter frequency ('Frequency'), social usage of laughter ('Usage'), understanding of other people's laughter ('Understanding'), and feelings towards laughter ('Liking'). Reliability and validity of the LPPQ were assessed. To explore potential similarities and differences based on culture and language, we collected data with Mandarin Chinese-speaking population (N = 574). A PCA suggested the extraction of the same four dimensions, with some item differences between English and Chinese versions. The Laughter Production and Perception Questionnaire (LPPQ) will advance research into the experience of human laughter, which has a potentially crucial role in everyday life.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Emotions ; Laughter ; Reproducibility of Results ; Surveys and Questionnaires
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-17
    Publishing country Ireland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 194929-9
    ISSN 1872-7972 ; 0304-3940
    ISSN (online) 1872-7972
    ISSN 0304-3940
    DOI 10.1016/j.neulet.2024.137690
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  9. Article ; Online: Perceptual and acoustic differences between authentic and acted nonverbal emotional vocalizations.

    Anikin, Andrey / Lima, César F

    Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)

    2018  Volume 71, Issue 3, Page(s) 622–641

    Abstract: Most research on nonverbal emotional vocalizations is based on actor portrayals, but how similar are they to the vocalizations produced spontaneously in everyday life? Perceptual and acoustic differences have been discovered between spontaneous and ... ...

    Abstract Most research on nonverbal emotional vocalizations is based on actor portrayals, but how similar are they to the vocalizations produced spontaneously in everyday life? Perceptual and acoustic differences have been discovered between spontaneous and volitional laughs, but little is known about other emotions. We compared 362 acted vocalizations from seven corpora with 427 authentic vocalizations using acoustic analysis, and 278 vocalizations (139 authentic and 139 acted) were also tested in a forced-choice authenticity detection task ( N = 154 listeners). Target emotions were: achievement, amusement, anger, disgust, fear, pain, pleasure, and sadness. Listeners distinguished between authentic and acted vocalizations with accuracy levels above chance across all emotions (overall accuracy 65%). Accuracy was highest for vocalizations of achievement, anger, fear, and pleasure, which also displayed the largest differences in acoustic characteristics. In contrast, both perceptual and acoustic differences between authentic and acted vocalizations of amusement, disgust, and sadness were relatively small. Acoustic predictors of authenticity included higher and more variable pitch, lower harmonicity, and less regular temporal structure. The existence of perceptual and acoustic differences between authentic and acted vocalizations for all analysed emotions suggests that it may be useful to include spontaneous expressions in datasets for psychological research and affective computing.
    MeSH term(s) Acoustic Stimulation ; Acoustics ; Auditory Perception/physiology ; Emotions/physiology ; Female ; Humans ; Language ; Male ; Nonverbal Communication/physiology ; Online Systems ; Psychoacoustics ; Social Perception
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-01-01
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 219170-2
    ISSN 1747-0226 ; 0033-555X ; 1747-0218
    ISSN (online) 1747-0226
    ISSN 0033-555X ; 1747-0218
    DOI 10.1080/17470218.2016.1270976
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  10. Article: Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities.

    Vilaverde, Ricardo F / Correia, Ana Isabel / Lima, César F

    Royal Society open science

    2020  Volume 7, Issue 8, Page(s) 192077

    Abstract: Mindfulness involves an intentional and non-judgemental attention or awareness of present-moment experiences. It can be cultivated by meditation practice or present as an inherent disposition or trait. Higher trait mindfulness has been associated with ... ...

    Abstract Mindfulness involves an intentional and non-judgemental attention or awareness of present-moment experiences. It can be cultivated by meditation practice or present as an inherent disposition or trait. Higher trait mindfulness has been associated with improved emotional skills, but evidence comes primarily from studies on emotion regulation. It remains unclear whether improvements extend to other aspects of emotional processing, namely the ability to recognize emotions in others. In the current study, 107 participants (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2787755-3
    ISSN 2054-5703
    ISSN 2054-5703
    DOI 10.1098/rsos.192077
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